I have an old HP xw4600 desktop computer that has been swapping a lot lately (even more after every firefox/chrome etc update) so I thought I keep it alive a little bit longer by doubling it's ram, from 4GB to 8GB. So I ordered 4 pieces of the appropriate PC2-6400 memory modules from aliexpress but these are 2GB in place of the original 1GB modules. The problem is that having 8GB of ram breaks the functionality of my nVidia GT 630 video card. It can do basic stuff but when I fire up some M$ games or compiz with funky animations it almost freezes. Under linux it starts to write cryptic error codes in dmesg, under Win the game crashes and a little yellow icon appears saying that the nvidia driver has crashed but recovered. I do not believe there is a problem with the memory modules, I ran memtest86+ for a pass, it showed no errors and if I pull out two modules (so I have only 4GB again) the videocard start working correctly. Other components (HDD, network card etc) does not seem to be affected. What can I do?
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According to this page: https://support.hp.com/ro-en/document/c01683078 with non-HP RAM my motherboard only works with 4GB. Yeah, I should've really checked the page before buying Kingston modules, but who would've thought.
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