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Can't get Windows 7 to boot with 4 gigs of ram
Greetings
After a bit of fun today I got Windows 7 loaded to my system, upgraded from XP. I was running 2gb of Adata ram and everything was running just fine. Then I decided to install the two Corsair XMS 2gb sticks that I just bought last week. I reboot and I get to the Starting Windows screen and it just hangs there frozen like a side of beef. I thought well, maybe it's the RAM so I put my original Abit sticks back in there and added a couple of 1gb sticks I'd just removed from the wifes pc after putting Corsair in hers. No luck again.
Is there anything I can do to check if windows just doesn't like my RAM? It shows up just fine in the BIOS but windows just isn't liking it.
Did a bit of research on my hardware
I have the following
Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H motherboard
AMD ATHLON 64 X2 6000+
580W power supply
I also did a bit of swapping with my ram last night and found that I can use the 2gb Corsair sticks one at a time and it works fine. So it seems that when I exceed 2gb of ram then Windows freezes at the Starting Windows screen.
Any suggestions would be really appreciated.