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BSOD when installing new ram
I spent yesterday trying to get my new ram to work, but to no avail. It is 4 2gb sticks of Kingston KVR16N11S6/2. They meet the requirements according to the motherboard manual.
I am running 64 bit windows 7. I initially installed all 4 sticks at once; windows said 1gb available 7gb hardware reserved, and runs super slow. BIOS only registered 1024mb. I reset BIOS and CMOS with no difference. When I installed them one at a time in DIMM slot 1 BIOS registered the 2gb but windows would blue screen crash after verifying DMI pool at start up on all 4 sticks. I tried booting with a 1gb stick of my old ram and it boots just fine.
I ran Memtest86+ on each stick twice and they are all error free. I updated my BIOS, made sure Maximum Memory is unchecked in MSCONFIG.
According to WinDbgx64 "Probably caused by : ntoskrnl.exe ( nt+748c0 )". Did some searching on google and the only thing I can find is that it could be defective ram, but mine passed Memtest86+.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Motherboard: Gigabyte X48T-DQ6
CPU: Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.5ghz
Ram: Kingston KVR16N11S6/2
Video Card: EVGA GT 740
Thanks for helping!