New RAM installation might be causing issues!

[ramenoodles]

Hey! So I've come across a new issue with my gaming laptop. For reference, I have an HP Victus 15'' that I got in 2023, and earlier this year, we upgraded the RAM from 8GB to to 16GB. However, since then, Ive noticed that whenever I open applications, or close others, it seems to trigger a reaction. When closing games (for reference, I don't play any RAM intense games, the main ones being Minecraft, VALORANT, Roblox, Stardew Valley, AimLabs, Gang beasts, and some story games such as Little Nightmares, etc) I notice that it crashes any other games I might have open in the background, and it opens up a bunch of applications, like Riot Client, Discord, File Explorer, Steam, and a terminal called SECCNH pipe name: \\.\pipe\{68327F92-4C65-4484-860D-DA80B61FCDBA}.SoundResearch_CoCl_1. Ive also noticed that some games, for example AimLabs and Stardew Valley (specifically when I'm trying to play CO-OP) the game straight up just crashes and triggers all the applications to open up

I've been told that the issue was that HP has Sound Research programs that trigger the applications to all crash, and that disabling it would fix everything. I did that, and the terminal doesn't open up anymore. However, all the other applications still open up and crash, so I feel that that didn't do anything. Is there anything I can do to fully fix this issue? Besides making sure the RAM is current. I'm 99% sure it's the same brand, DDR5 and frequency and my laptop registers that I do indeed have 16 GB RAM but I'll be double checking just in case soon and making sure it's actually in correctly, but I just wanted to see if this would also be considered a software issue to be fixed. 

Thank you, any help is greatly appreciated! 

Note: preferably would like to keep my laptop at 16 GB, especially now in this RAM shortage economy we have going on 😅

I want to have my cake and eat it too!