2.5GB ram is ok, 3GB ram causes BSOD
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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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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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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!