RESOLVED: System keeps freezing up - But please read the notes as this is strange problem

This was bad ram.    Very bizarre results which thru me off, but all is good

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Please read this carefully as I tried to put as much detail as needed and desperately need some guidance.   

First off, I am not a PRO, this is an Unraid server I built in December.

After reading for months and testing unraid on a smaller machine, decided to get all new equipment:

Ryzen 5700G  64g of Corsair Ram - with 115TB's, 2 Parity drives

Everything was working without any issue from December until Saturday 2/13 and I decided to add 2 more 14TB's and  upgrade the RAM to 128 (same exact 2 sticks of 32g Corsair).

However, to install the new ram, I needed to remove the motherboard from the case because I have a Be Quiet Dark Rock 4 CPU fan that was blocking the memory slot so I needed to remove the motherboard and remove one of the fans from the CPU fan to get under the cooler (it's big) to get the ram installed.

Once I did this,  I put everything back and rebooted.   It booted up just fine and I started preclear on the new drives.

It got to 2.0% done and the system stopped responding.  I looked at the monitor attached to the screen and it was scrolling crazy in a loop and not able to read it.

Forced to hard reboot on the PC, when it came back up (all in a 1 hour or so period so I knew preclear was not done) it said preclear is finished, but obviously it wasn't. 

So I tried to format the new drives and it said it needs to be cleared, so I let the process start and between 2-4% it froze up, there was a bunch of kernel messages on the monitor.  

This time, not knowing what the issue was and did not want to deal with preclear/clear issue, I disconnected the new drives so the array was in the original format, but when starting, it said it was an unclear shutdown and it said it needs to run parity check.  It started finding around 70000+ errors and left it alone (nothing running) and got to 5% and froze up again. 

Ran Memtest64+ on the machine - Test it still running but i wanted to post this (memtest at 91% and no errors so far)

Update: 13 Addr 1E763BA78 Expected: 938A6F19 Actual: 978A6F19 CPU: 0

(So this might indicate bad ram after all) - REPLACED THE 64G with new 64G and working correctly again. 

Not sure what to do, need some guidance and I am in a slight panic. 

I would think, remove the 2 sticks of ram, but it's so difficult to do with removing the motherboard from the case, and if that is not the problem.  It would be a waste of a lot of time for nothing.  (if this was easy, I would have done this but it's a whole ordeal).

Edited February 15, 20224 yr by GeorgeJetson20
update - Issue was bad Ram