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I bought two new DDR2 2x4GB non-ECC, un-buffered ram sticks from ebay. Here is product link.

After installing them on my Asus P5Q, I got blue screen error once I reached windows boot screen. After few tries computer stops at bios start. I have Windows 10 1709 on my PC. Then I removed ram sticks and realized that they are more heated than my old ram sticks.

Please can anyone help me to fix this or give me some advise? Thank.

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The answer is that the RAM is bad. This was verified using MEMTEST86.

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What you bought are refurbished/recycled RAM chips by obscure Chinese OEM.

The Samsung sticker is fake, along with the claimed part number, which happens to be included in the QVL of memory for P5Q, likely to mislead people into buying it.

If you read the marking on the black chips of your RAM, you will find "SEC XXX HCE6", with chips having different XXX values. On genuine Samsung it should be the same value, eg. 816, which corresponds to the 0816 as shown on the sticker, to indicate it is manufactured in the 16th week of year 2008. Also, HCE6 means it's rated as DDR2-667, so it is falsely advertised as DDR2-800.

This RAM is advertised as AMD-only for a reason: it is of 2Rx4. Consumer motherboard with Intel chipset only support 1Rx8/2Rx8/1Rx16. If this is hard to understand and believe, think this way: if you are the seller, would you slander your products capable of supporting multiple platforms (in this case, AMD & Intel) as AMD-only and sell at a lower price?

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