HELP!, please

xpuresdr · 19 Jan 2012 at 20:37

hi guys, i really need your help.
i ordered 8gb's of corsair vengeance 1600mhz ram, and it came today...
i installed the ram into my motherboard.
However when it gets to "windows is loading" i get a blue screen and my system restarts.
I've tried each stick separately, to try narrow down the problem - they both seem to work.

please help me get this ram to work!!!...

xpuresdr · 20 Jan 2012 at 23:15

xpuresdr · 20 Jan 2012 at 23:36

the motherboard is really old, and has no options in the BIOS to change anything.
initialy i thourght that it may be the case that my motherboard doesn't support 8gb's of ram, then i found this. http://www.orcalogic.co.uk/asp/prodtype.asp?prodtype=105835&ft=M&st=1
ill try using memtest to stress each individual disk. thank you.

xpuresdr · 21 Jan 2012 at 19:11

i have run memtest in my bios.
the ram passed without any errors, however when i tried to do a system repair - it said there was a uncontrolable hardware issue.
edit: how do i update my BIOS

xpuresdr · 21 Jan 2012 at 21:16

im buying the i5 2500k and asrock z68 extreme gen 3 1155 in march, i guess i will just have to wait it out.
i just wanted to find out if the ram was faulty or not, so i would know whether to send them back.

xpuresdr · 3 Feb 2012 at 21:58

bump, i just went into the bios and disabled memory remapping, whatever that does.
now i can boot into windows, everything is fine.
please can some one explain this to me?. it still dosent work with memory remapping enabled...

xpuresdr · 3 Feb 2012 at 22:19

just looked at task manager, its only picking up 4gb of ram, i think i know the problem.

xpuresdr · 3 Feb 2012 at 22:54

i sound like an idiot now, not like anyone is reading this.
i looked at the total physical memory, turns out with memory remapping it made me down to 3.2gb.
so i figured i would be better off sticking with my 4gb till i get a new motherboard.