Win7 64Bit crasshes with 6Gig Ram, but OK with 5

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  1. Posts : 17
    Seven 64
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    Win7 64Bit crashes with 6Gig Ram, but OK with 5Gig


    i recently upgraded to Win7 after Xp finally gave up on my (suspected worm...) anywho

    so far, lots of problems with the fun of 64bit one of which being that my PC seems to give up on me as soon as it reached the Windows 7 loading screen with 6 gig of ram .... now if i take out a stick of 1 gig ram or more.. it runs absolutely fine...

    any reasons why it would be failing on 6 gig??? the ram is 100% not corrupt so its not that... anyhelp would be great

    PC specs attached .... just hit me that i may need to update my MB drivers......
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  2. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
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    CrysAk said:
    i recently upgraded to Win7 after Xp finally gave up on my (suspected worm...) anywho

    so far, lots of problems with the fun of 64bit one of which being that my PC seems to give up on me as soon as it reached the Windows 7 loading screen with 6 gig of ram .... now if i take out a stick of 1 gig ram or more.. it runs absolutely fine...

    any reasons why it would be failing on 6 gig??? the ram is 100% not corrupt so its not that... anyhelp would be great

    PC specs attached .... just hit me that i may need to update my MB drivers......

    Good place to start update everything. Dont overclock, do a backup in case.

    dl and run memtestx86 and run for several hours to verify your ram


    Ken J+
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  3. Posts : 17
    Seven 64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    thanks will give that a shot if these drivers fail ...

    funny how i managed to re-install all my games and graphics/mice/keyboard drivers and completely failed to upgrade the *****y MB lol ^^ typical gamer :P

    will be back with how this went :)
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  4. Posts : 17
    Seven 64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    ok drivers updated and still no joy

    gets to the loading screen (see below) then freezes before the windows logo begins to form



    any other ideas???
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  5. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #5

    CrysAk said:
    ok drivers updated and still no joy

    gets to the loading screen (see below) then freezes before the windows logo begins to form



    any other ideas???

    Yep fails like taht are ofter either a video driver, a raid problem, or HD.

    Try This see if you can boot into safe mode (F8) if it works then I suspect video driver.

    Let us know

    Ken J+
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  6. Posts : 17
    Seven 64
    Thread Starter
       #6

    thanks for your help ...

    safe mode gets to the end of the following screen before freezing ... (Loaded .... .... CLASSPNP.SYS)

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    Posts : 101
    windows 7 64 bit
       #7

    I has a similar problem, it was caused by the BIOS. With 2gm it loaded fine, with 4gb it wouldn't load. I changed the BIOS and the 4gb loaded without problems. I have an INTEL board and INTEL BIOS.
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  8. Posts : 17
    Seven 64
    Thread Starter
       #8

    new said:
    I has a similar problem, it was caused by the BIOS. With 2gm it loaded fine, with 4gb it wouldn't load. I changed the BIOS and the 4gb loaded without problems. I have an INTEL board and INTEL BIOS.
    how would i go about updating the BIO's ???

    i know have very little tech skills with the internals of PCs
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  9. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Home
       #9

    i have the exact same problem with it freezing on windows 7 loading screen. Might be by bios ?? I want to know how to change it so it works 4gb ram here.
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  10. Posts : 17
    Seven 64
    Thread Starter
       #10

    it seems to be a problem with the MB .. EVGA 680i A1

    currently working out the issue on their forums :)

    thanks for all the info
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