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from 2 to 4 gigs ram, vista doesn't boot
Added 2 gigs of new ram from crucial, linux runs fine, been dual booting
since Vista was invented .. ;o) Vista won't boot now all the way. In normal mode it stops after the little bar near the bottom of the screen moves from left to right. never stops though. I waited 15 minutes and it keeps on going, no hdd activity any more. Did a 2 stage vista mem test, all normal. Safe mode stops at Loaded: \windows\system32\drivers\avgrkx86.sys then a pause in hdd activity then a brief burst and then nothing. Takes a power off to get out of any of these. Last resort was to pop in my vista disk, ended up doing a restore under the repair op system and of course that didn't do anything as my last shutdown before adding the ram was good and clean. Any help sure would be appreciated. bios recognizes 3. something gig memory I've uninstalled AVG and now in safe mode it'll stop at ~\crcdisk.sys The crucial ram: 4 new 1 gig sticks, replaced my old ram. |
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from 2 to 4 gigs ram, vista doesn't boot
Many motherboards require manually setting lower ram speed or higher ram
voltage in the BIOS for stability with 4 ram modules. "Bob" wrote in message ... Added 2 gigs of new ram from crucial, linux runs fine, been dual booting since Vista was invented .. ;o) Vista won't boot now all the way. In normal mode it stops after the little bar near the bottom of the screen moves from left to right. never stops though. I waited 15 minutes and it keeps on going, no hdd activity any more. Did a 2 stage vista mem test, all normal. Safe mode stops at Loaded: \windows\system32\drivers\avgrkx86.sys then a pause in hdd activity then a brief burst and then nothing. Takes a power off to get out of any of these. Last resort was to pop in my vista disk, ended up doing a restore under the repair op system and of course that didn't do anything as my last shutdown before adding the ram was good and clean. Any help sure would be appreciated. bios recognizes 3. something gig memory I've uninstalled AVG and now in safe mode it'll stop at ~\crcdisk.sys The crucial ram: 4 new 1 gig sticks, replaced my old ram. |
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from 2 to 4 gigs ram, vista doesn't boot
Also, check for a BIOS update for your motherboard.
"Paul Shapiro" wrote in message ... Many motherboards require manually setting lower ram speed or higher ram voltage in the BIOS for stability with 4 ram modules. "Bob" wrote in message ... Added 2 gigs of new ram from crucial, linux runs fine, been dual booting since Vista was invented .. ;o) Vista won't boot now all the way. In normal mode it stops after the little bar near the bottom of the screen moves from left to right. never stops though. I waited 15 minutes and it keeps on going, no hdd activity any more. Did a 2 stage vista mem test, all normal. Safe mode stops at Loaded: \windows\system32\drivers\avgrkx86.sys then a pause in hdd activity then a brief burst and then nothing. Takes a power off to get out of any of these. Last resort was to pop in my vista disk, ended up doing a restore under the repair op system and of course that didn't do anything as my last shutdown before adding the ram was good and clean. Any help sure would be appreciated. bios recognizes 3. something gig memory I've uninstalled AVG and now in safe mode it'll stop at ~\crcdisk.sys The crucial ram: 4 new 1 gig sticks, replaced my old ram. |
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