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Possible Ram issue with Win7 install?
Hey guys,
A little history here first:
I recently upgraded my motherboard, processor, and ram in my computer. I kept my old hard drive but loaded a fresh copy of win7 x64 onto it. The installation went smoothly and I didn't notice any issues until about a week later when I started having windows crash to blue screen. I restarted my computer and it would work okay for maybe 6 to 8 hours then crash again. Only other thing I noticed was Firefox crashing constantly but I thought at the time that it was just a problem with Firefox.
I decided to reload windows completely onto it thinking it a problem with the OS. I tried numerous times to load it but it kept stoping at extracting files and giving me an error message saying files corrupt or missing, (I don't remember the exact message.) I even tried a brand new hard drive and got the same message.
I did a little research online and tried a few things with no luck, until I read about reducing the ram. I thought that it would never work but sure enough it did. I took out one of my two sticks of 4gb ram cards and it loaded smoothly no hiccups at all. It seems to be running smoothly so far and I haven't put the ram stick back in yet until I do some more testing.
I know it's possible that my ram is bad, but is it possible that too much ram could have interfered with the installation of windows? I'm not real computer savvy, I just know enough to get myself in trouble. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks.