Vista x64 4GB RAM issues

Burnsy2023

Burnsy2023

Burnsy2023

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Ok, I've just added a 8600GTS to my system which has a 8600GT and 4GB RAM. Before I added the card all was well, Vista saw the RAM and loved it. However, ever since I added this extra card Vista has been unhappy. It's running both cards now, but keeps BSODing when I have 4GB RAM installed and I can't see anything to help in the event viewer.

Any ideas?

Burnsy
 
brendy said:
Whats the motherboard? some dont happily accept 4gb.
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Like I said, it's happily run 4GB RAM yesterday. It's an ASUS A8n-Sli Deluxe.

And this look familiar Bledd?! :mad:

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I don't ******* believe it. Just trying to disable DEP as we speak.

Burnsy
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Like I said, it's happily run 4GB RAM yesterday. It's an ASUS A8n-Sli Deluxe.

And this look familiar Bledd?! :mad:

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I don't ******* believe it. Just trying to disable DEP as we speak.

Burnsy
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To be honest, the variable that has changed is the new graphics card. Try removing that and seeing if it stop it BSOD'ing. After that, remove the original GFX card and use just the new one instead.
 
philjohn said:
To be honest, the variable that has changed is the new graphics card. Try removing that and seeing if it stop it BSOD'ing. After that, remove the original GFX card and use just the new one instead.
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Yes if I remove the new graphics card it does work fine, but I can't have just one card as I have three monitors which was kinda the point of the exercise.

I disabled DEP but it's still happening. It's probably a driver issue like last time, but I have no idea which one.

Any other ideas appriciated

Burnsy
 
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try one card at a time

just pick out a stable HWQL nvidia driver either from their site of guru3d.com

also, intel chipset drivers maybe :S
 
are you running in SLI, or just two cards..

got another psu you can test?..
i don't need to ask this, but you've got sp1 & all updates i presume

maybe turn off video bios caching in bios
 
bledd. said:
are you running in SLI, or just two cards..

got another psu you can test?..
i don't need to ask this, but you've got sp1 & all updates i presume

maybe turn off video bios caching in bios
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It's just two cards although they have the sli bridge etc.

SP1, but I have had issues with windows update not updating. Actually WU has been very patchy for me. Maybe I should sort that.

I'll have a look if there is a BIOS caching option :)

Cheers

Burnsy
 
could try a fresh install on a spare hd, to rule things out..

i tend to do that before troubleshooting if there's no logical reason for something to not work, then test after installing each thing that 'could' set it off..
 
Maybe a stupid suggestion, but your mobo doesn't require an extra molex plugging into the board itself (as well as any gfx card power leads) for SLI does it?
 
So let me check, it works fine if you remove half the RAM?

I think it's a driver bug personally.
 
Rainmaker said:
Maybe a stupid suggestion, but your mobo doesn't require an extra molex plugging into the board itself (as well as any gfx card power leads) for SLI does it?
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I bought a new PSU just to make sure I had enough power to run all this :)

robbi187 said:
I know im probably going to set off the n00b alarm but I didnt realise you could SLi with 2 different cards?
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nVidia unified driver architecture rules!

Tute said:
So let me check, it works fine if you remove half the RAM?

I think it's a driver bug personally.
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Not half the RAM, just have to remove one 1GB stick. Maybe that brings it below a 4GB threshold for something.

I agree it's probably a driver issue, but I'm not quite sure which one.

Burnsy
 
I had the exact same error when I installed 4Gb plus GFX into a Vista HP 32 machine. IIRC it was actually an update that caused it then there was another hotfix to fix the fix.
 
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