2.5GB ram is ok, 3GB ram causes BSOD


  1. Posts : 3
    windows xp, & FreeBSD 7.x
       #1

    2.5GB ram is ok, 3GB ram causes BSOD


    When I tried installing windows 7 on my main machine everything went well until it rebooted into the installed system which caused a lot of automatic reboots and subsequent crashes. What I did notice was that the install graphics were HORRIBLE!

    This was weird because I had installed windows 7 painlessly on 3 other systems; a modern dual core and a p4 2.4ghz laptop from 2003 and they both looked great!

    So, after looking and asking it turns out that I couldn't install with 3GB of ram. So I took out 1/2 a gig and sure enough it worked just fine!

    So, after win7 boots up and i reboot a few times after installing software, i stick back 1/2 a gig (back to 3GB now) and it crashes non stop - doesn't even boot up.

    Anyone know what the deal is?

    My system specs:

    Intel P4 3ghz 32 BIT
    ASRock P4V88 mobo
    Via Apollo PT880 chipset
    2.5GB ram PC3200 DDR (with a total of matching 3GB ram - 2 x 1GB & 2 x 512MB)
    ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    c-media sound card (built in)
    a couple of dvd drives, couple of hdd's
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  2. Posts : 9,606
    Win7 Enterprise, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x64 Ult 7600, TechNet RTM on AMD x64 (2.8Ghz)
       #2

    Here is some things to check out first

    Tutorial quick reference list for Installing Windows 7
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  3. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #3

    GhettoBSD said:
    When I tried installing windows 7 on my main machine everything went well until it rebooted into the installed system which caused a lot of automatic reboots and subsequent crashes. What I did notice was that the install graphics were HORRIBLE!

    This was weird because I had installed windows 7 painlessly on 3 other systems; a modern dual core and a p4 2.4ghz laptop from 2003 and they both looked great!

    So, after looking and asking it turns out that I couldn't install with 3GB of ram. So I took out 1/2 a gig and sure enough it worked just fine!

    So, after win7 boots up and i reboot a few times after installing software, i stick back 1/2 a gig (back to 3GB now) and it crashes non stop - doesn't even boot up.

    Anyone know what the deal is?

    My system specs:

    Intel P4 3ghz 32 BIT
    ASRock P4V88 mobo
    Via Apollo PT880 chipset
    2.5GB ram PC3200 DDR (with a total of matching 3GB ram - 2 x 1GB & 2 x 512MB)
    ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
    c-media sound card (built in)
    a couple of dvd drives, couple of hdd's

    Do you have either a max memory setting in BIOS? if so it should be unchecked. Have you tried diagnosing if it is 1-512, 1-slot?

    Ken
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  4. Posts : 3
    windows xp, & FreeBSD 7.x
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Thanks DocBrown, took a quick look and I don't think that section will help me out with this problem.

    zigzag: max is 3GB lol, that's why that's all I have. (3GB for dual channel mode anyways). All the ram is good and works the same in different configurations.

    Windows 7 is up and running in case i didn't make that clear. It's only when I try to add that other 512MB that it won't boot.

    Thanks for the quick reply guys!
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