Vista Problem i think

Adikia · 2 Jun 2008 at 00:15

Hi everybody,
Just put to gether my new pc the other day. All went well except found after much searching i had to install vista with only 2GB RAM out of the 4. Well thats fine but now i cant boot up when i have the 4GB installed at all. Tried to install the patch that a lot of threads i have read said would make it work, problem is it says the patch isnt for my windows :S. Running vista 64 bit with SP1 and my spec is as follows:

MSI K9A Platinum Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core 6400+
Corsair 4Gb DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX 2x2GB
Samsung SH-S203P/BEBN DVD+RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscibe rewriter
HIS ATI Radeon HD 3870 XT ICEQ3 512MB GDDR4
Antec Truepower Trio 650W PSU
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache

Any ideas on how to fix it, tried upping the voltage on the RAM to 2.1 didnt boot still

HummuH1 · 2 Jun 2008 at 12:53

Not really my bag but I'd be trying each stick of RAM individually first, get it booting and then running something like Memtest to check that each stick works as it should.

If all seems OK, then check if your motherboard has any specific voltage requirements when running 2x2Gb. Might be worth a search in both Motherboard and memory forum.

Adikia · 3 Jun 2008 at 01:31

Checked through the forums on here and doesnt have any info, and cant find anything on the voltage about going over 2.1. Bios doesnt want to go higher says its 'dangerous'.

Anybody because its really winding me up now...........

Tried the RAM seperatly and it works fine... Wouldnt POST find an error when booting when i had both sticks in if anything was faulty?

Brian Stuart · 3 Jun 2008 at 09:49

Could be that the RAM does not want to work together. Try with 1GB, then 2 etc, etc. HummuH1 is right, test each stick with Memtest to rule out the possibility of a faulty stick.
Adding another 0.1v will not kill the RAM but it does not sound like a voltage issue TBH.
Is the PC running OK with 1 or 2GB of RAM as it could be an non RAM fault? Welcome to the forums BTW.

Admiral Huddy · 3 Jun 2008 at 10:21

If each stick works individually then it could be wither a faulty memory controller (I had a PC with the same problem last week) or a faulty mobo. Running memtest86+ will give you some idea.

Try individual sticks in seperate banks etc..

Adikia · 3 Jun 2008 at 18:12

PC boots and runs fine with either of the sticks in, ran memtest and no errors. Tried moving the sticks round havent tried putting them in slots 1 and 2 together or 3 and 4. Mobo manual says to have them in either 1 and 3 or 2 and 4.... is it worth trying one and two together?

thanks for the welcome, how come you cant register for the forums on a hotmail email address?

ok i tried putting it in all the different slots and the different combos... nothing still HDD light flashes screen goes black like it does usually before vista boots then just nothing.