Yes...another memory question. No boot up on 8 gigs of stick.

[hoovinc]

Hello All,

Not sure if this is an OS thing but here it goes. Newly built PC running
Windows XP
pro x64 edition. Srvc pack 2.
With 4 sticks of memory (8 gb total)..pc won't boot up at all (no signal on
monitors). It takes 4 to 5 shut downs and pc wil eventually boot up( But
upon boot up, it will give me a blue screen error--but reboots itself and it
will finally be good to go). So when the pc if finally running, it could
run for hours without any problem. Even if I restart the pc ...it would
boot up fine ( as long as it's been running fine).
Lately, i've been running it with only 2 sticks of memory (4gb total)...and
it boots up
fine and dandy. But I do want to utilize the 8gb capability of this mobo and
64bit tech.
Any body have any clue on whats the issue here?
btw: Both with 4 gigs or 8 gigs...the pc reads the memory fine.

 

[Bobby Johnson]

Re: Yes...another memory question. No boot up on 8 gigs of stick.

You have a problem with your system. Maybe the brand of
memory? It's one of those things you will need to work out.
Start by making sure you have the most current version of
BIOS. Then look carefully at your installed cards - there
are some add in cards that will affect the system.

It's not an easy answer.

I am using two Biostar TA770 A2+ boards with 4 x 2GB
DDR2-800 without any problems; one board is supporting Vista
Enterprise x64 and the other supporting Windows XP Pro x64.
Both recognize and use all 8GB of memory.


hoovinc wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Not sure if this is an OS thing but here it goes. Newly built PC running
> Windows XP
> pro x64 edition. Srvc pack 2.
> With 4 sticks of memory (8 gb total)..pc won't boot up at all (no signal on
> monitors). It takes 4 to 5 shut downs and pc wil eventually boot up( But
> upon boot up, it will give me a blue screen error--but reboots itself and it
> will finally be good to go). So when the pc if finally running, it could
> run for hours without any problem. Even if I restart the pc ...it would
> boot up fine ( as long as it's been running fine).
> Lately, i've been running it with only 2 sticks of memory (4gb total)...and
> it boots up
> fine and dandy. But I do want to utilize the 8gb capability of this mobo and
> 64bit tech.
> Any body have any clue on whats the issue here?
> btw: Both with 4 gigs or 8 gigs...the pc reads the memory fine.

 

[Charlie Russel - MVP]

Re: Yes...another memory question. No boot up on 8 gigs of stick.

We've seen something like this repeatedly. It seem to narrow down to voltage
issues when using 4 sticks of memory, and the solution in some cases has
been as simple as increaing the voltage 10% or so on the memory. In other
cases, the solution has been "elusive" to be polite. Sometimes going to
slower RAM has solved it. Sometimes a 2x2 GB + 2x1GB solution has solutiont
has solved it. Sometimes, nothing does. I have a board that can run 6GB
fine, no issues at all. But put 8GB in it, and it won't boot. Annoying,
since I was going to use that board for my SBS virtualization box, and I
wanted to give SBS a full 7GB.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

"hoovinc" <hoovinc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> Not sure if this is an OS thing but here it goes. Newly built PC running
> Windows XP
> pro x64 edition. Srvc pack 2.
> With 4 sticks of memory (8 gb total)..pc won't boot up at all (no signal
> on
> monitors). It takes 4 to 5 shut downs and pc wil eventually boot up( But
> upon boot up, it will give me a blue screen error--but reboots itself and
> it
> will finally be good to go). So when the pc if finally running, it
> could
> run for hours without any problem. Even if I restart the pc ...it would
> boot up fine ( as long as it's been running fine).
> Lately, i've been running it with only 2 sticks of memory (4gb
> total)...and
> it boots up
> fine and dandy. But I do want to utilize the 8gb capability of this mobo
> and
> 64bit tech.
> Any body have any clue on whats the issue here?
> btw: Both with 4 gigs or 8 gigs...the pc reads the memory fine.