Vista not booting up with 8GB Ram

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I just took delivery of my new Asus P5Q motherboard, Q6600 and 8GB OCZ ram this morning

Threw it all together, although with 8GB installed, the windows vista cd would "windows is loading files" then throw up and error message saying windows could not start ?

I thought that its probably moaning about the amount of ram installed, so i removed 4GB and suprise suprise, all started up ok, and installed

Although I put the other 4GB back to make it 8, and just as its about to boot, it blue screens then restarts.

Although is fine with 4GB in it,

What am i doing wrong :s, I was going to OC it in a moment, but then confused as to why its doing this, can anyone throw me in the right direction ?

Thanks
 
Could be faulty RAM. Have you put both sets of 4GB in separately and started?
 
O yea, dunno why i didnt think of that ........

RAM memtest on all 4 sticks individually, and memtest shows no errors, i have swap tested bot 4GB kits and both start windows up, even with 6GB in but not 8.

Don't think its the Ram then :(

Could it be to do with the vista SP1 needing to go on it perhaps ? i've heard soo many things in regards to 32bit Os's seeing ram although i've thrown on a 64.
 
try fresh installing vista with 2gb of ram, get it all patched up and drivers installed, then put the rest of your ram in

I know that i had bsod problems when first installing vista with all my ram in

I reinstalled vista again recently though with just 2gb in, and didnt any problems at all, I put in my other 6gb once i was all patched up and running
 
malc30 said:
Give it more volts.
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I did that, it did allow windows to start up a bit further :)

But then started physical dumping after that

I've decided to let it run with 6GB (as its all a waste with me anyway)

and so far im at a 3.0ghz OC without changing any voltages, so that will do for me lol
 
same thing happened to me years ago, with a lot less ram.

i put the ram in, and took the bios battery out then put it back in, it restarted everything and booted up fine.
 
Didnt work for me this time, at one point before overclocking and throwing i the extra damn it didnt even post :(

I've managed to achieve a so far stable overclock of 3.4ghz out of a Q6600, cant remember what the voltages are etc but that will do for now, idle in windows @ 40 degrees with one of those artic silver coolers on it.

Before i overclocked idle in the bios it was telling me 15 degrees

oooooooooo :)
 
Hefner said:
Tried extra NB volts too?
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Problem on this board, if its not set to auto, then it doesnt tell you the voltage is it is currently running at.

So im not too sure whether i give it extra, volts whether i am actually giving it either a lot of volts or less volts, i guess the save and grace i got here is when i start to give it a lot of extra juice, then it starts to go yellow, orange, and then red in the bios lol
 
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