I added fresh RAM with the old ones, but the system is malfunctioning.
I added fresh RAM with the old ones, but the system is malfunctioning.
It's been a bit of a wild ride with this story. The RAM wasn't actually bad at all. I brought it back to the store, and their tech checked it out—it worked perfectly on their system. They gave me another chance to try, or I could just return or replace it. I updated my BIOS, which was pretty outdated (2019), and increased the SOC voltage to 1.115V. That seemed to fix it. I also tried the 16GB kit, and it passed memtest86 too. It's been roughly a week now, and everything runs smoothly as always.