RAM is a vital component that ensures a system's proper operation. In simple terms, RAM functions as short-term memory, where your system temporarily stores information while working on a task.

I'd return what you have, and get something that's on the QVL for your motherboard. Sometimes some RAM just won't play nice with some boards short of a lot of fiddling with RAM timings, and as you say ...

Hey C&MT, it's been a while for me. I'm putting together a passively-cooled Qotom system (Atom C3758R) to become a new OPNsense router... More accurately, it will probably run Proxmox, with the router ...