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THANK YOU! Apparently it gives me some "windows is shifting it's display mode to basic" when java loads in. This makes a lot more sense. I think I'll uninstall java and see if my problem goes away.
As to the other comments, I've done one channel of 512 and another of 1 GB before (3 total) and that worked so I was hoping to do the same here. The difference was that box was so very old that it was $50 to get two 1 gb sticks. It wasn't a big deal.
This upgrade might work and it might not, and I think that 12 would be "good enough". I'm already running a good SSD where I do all my work.