If you can get a Vista install to work,update to the latest chipset drivers and run memtest for a while at least 10 passes. It's not unheard of that memory will pass memtest with only a few passes but after running it for awhile errors might start to show up. I'm sure by now your extremely frustrated, I know I would be. Nothing seems to make any sence. I'm looking forward to other suggestions as I'm sure you are too. Good luck. Fabe
You said it runs fine with 4 gigs but crashes with the second pair.
This tells me its the second pair of ram that you installed is bad.
Put in 1 ram(no pair). load default settings in bios. format hard drive no partitions.
Install with only 1 ram, video card, motherboard. Nothing else.
If you have errors take some pictures and submit them here.
hiya fabe,thanks for the post.
i have tried to install with one stick at a time,each install with a different stick.I finally gave up after 3 days of banging my head against the wall.
The only other thing i could think of was that the mem timing was out.Tweaking RAM is out of my league,so i dropped it down to the local IT shop.I asked them to bench test my machine,and also asked them to use MY 64-bit disk on installation,just in case the retail cd i bought was corrupted.
Im hoping to hear from them today,because as soon as they seen my rig they moved the tower out the back and started to work on it.(sweeet rig)
Thanks for all the comments guys.
Ill post back here with the results,as soon as i get them.
The 100mb "slice" is normal for a win7 install. It is like a dell or HP recovery partition.
EWWW @ dell or HP !
Status update from the IT store :
The RAM timing was out,as well as the side bus timing.They are currently installing win7 64-bit,and will contact me if it boots consistently.
Will update again if the situation changes.
The tech told me that he had to UNLINK the timing,and reset the mhz of the ram to 1333,i never stuffed around with that in bios so its got me how it reset itself.As for the side bus,i do not know what he did.
Win7 64 is now working perfectly so im not complaining.
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