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Fatal Mistake.
I believe i made a fatal mistake when I upgraded my memory recently. I went
from 2 GB of PC3200 to 4 GB of PC4000. After the upgrade Vista had seriuos issues and would not boot at all. I removed Vista and tried a clean install but it seems the it does not care for my new memory, I keep getting error messages when I boot about critical failures and non Paged memory. I had hoped the Blue Screen of Death was behind us for good but it seems that I found it. If somone has knowledge about trying to fix this problem please let me know. |
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Fatal Mistake.
You admit that you think you made a mistake in upgrading your RAM. You
likely did, in RAM selection or installation. Also, the RAM may be defective (it's not unheard of). That being the case, why would you expect NOT to see a BSOD??? You have hardware problems now and must sort them out. The computer has done exactly what it should have done. It warned you of a problem! Good luck! I hope you purchased the RAM from someone like Crucial, a company that has a lifetime warranty. -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) Quote from George Ankner: If you knew as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "Trinity" wrote in message ... I believe i made a fatal mistake when I upgraded my memory recently. I went from 2 GB of PC3200 to 4 GB of PC4000. After the upgrade Vista had seriuos issues and would not boot at all. I removed Vista and tried a clean install but it seems the it does not care for my new memory, I keep getting error messages when I boot about critical failures and non Paged memory. I had hoped the Blue Screen of Death was behind us for good but it seems that I found it. If somone has knowledge about trying to fix this problem please let me know. |
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Fatal Mistake.
Did you install same type -parity or non-parity memory as per mobo specs?
You can use MemTest (boot it from cd, or floppy) if you don't want the memory test that comes w/ RC1. Next, check the voltage/amperage from PSU - even if the sticks are ok in MemTest, they can perform poorly if the power load increases due to graphics, audio, HDD's, DVDDrive etc. Check RAM voltage in BIOS is according to RAM specs. Other things... make sure it's a calibrated kit of memory sticks w/ similar performance. Try running w/ only one stick, switch sticks, check them at a computer shop. Michael "Trinity" wrote in message ... I believe i made a fatal mistake when I upgraded my memory recently. I went from 2 GB of PC3200 to 4 GB of PC4000. After the upgrade Vista had seriuos issues and would not boot at all. I removed Vista and tried a clean install but it seems the it does not care for my new memory, I keep getting error messages when I boot about critical failures and non Paged memory. I had hoped the Blue Screen of Death was behind us for good but it seems that I found it. If somone has knowledge about trying to fix this problem please let me know. |
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Fatal Mistake.
first thing to check is whether the motherboard is compatible with 4Gb of
Ram. "Trinity" wrote in message ... I believe i made a fatal mistake when I upgraded my memory recently. I went from 2 GB of PC3200 to 4 GB of PC4000. After the upgrade Vista had seriuos issues and would not boot at all. I removed Vista and tried a clean install but it seems the it does not care for my new memory, I keep getting error messages when I boot about critical failures and non Paged memory. I had hoped the Blue Screen of Death was behind us for good but it seems that I found it. If somone has knowledge about trying to fix this problem please let me know. |
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Fatal Mistake.
Well folks, to start with.
Yes I did buy RAM with A lifetime warranty and it came from OCZ. Yes, my mother board is one that is compatible with 4 GB of Ram. It happens to be an ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe and the BIOS auto configured tthe voltage, RAS and CAS. My power supply is a 600 Watt from XION so I don't think it's a PSU problem. When I installed a clean copy of Windows XP the machine had no problems with it and software had no grief with my machine. It's only the Beta2 versions of Vista that has a problem. "Hilmar" wrote: first thing to check is whether the motherboard is compatible with 4Gb of Ram. "Trinity" wrote in message ... I believe i made a fatal mistake when I upgraded my memory recently. I went from 2 GB of PC3200 to 4 GB of PC4000. After the upgrade Vista had seriuos issues and would not boot at all. I removed Vista and tried a clean install but it seems the it does not care for my new memory, I keep getting error messages when I boot about critical failures and non Paged memory. I had hoped the Blue Screen of Death was behind us for good but it seems that I found it. If somone has knowledge about trying to fix this problem please let me know. |
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Fatal Mistake.
Try to run with only 2 GB of the new RAM - assuming you have 4x1GB RAM. I
would not trust ASUS BIOS or AI NOS to necessarily set up the best voltage for the RAM, but I don't think that would be a big issue since it posts. Michael "Trinity" wrote in message ... Well folks, to start with. Yes I did buy RAM with A lifetime warranty and it came from OCZ. Yes, my mother board is one that is compatible with 4 GB of Ram. It happens to be an ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe and the BIOS auto configured tthe voltage, RAS and CAS. My power supply is a 600 Watt from XION so I don't think it's a PSU problem. When I installed a clean copy of Windows XP the machine had no problems with it and software had no grief with my machine. It's only the Beta2 versions of Vista that has a problem. "Hilmar" wrote: first thing to check is whether the motherboard is compatible with 4Gb of Ram. "Trinity" wrote in message ... I believe i made a fatal mistake when I upgraded my memory recently. I went from 2 GB of PC3200 to 4 GB of PC4000. After the upgrade Vista had seriuos issues and would not boot at all. I removed Vista and tried a clean install but it seems the it does not care for my new memory, I keep getting error messages when I boot about critical failures and non Paged memory. I had hoped the Blue Screen of Death was behind us for good but it seems that I found it. If somone has knowledge about trying to fix this problem please let me know. |
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Fatal Mistake.
Thank you, Michael, I will try that.
"Michael" wrote: Try to run with only 2 GB of the new RAM - assuming you have 4x1GB RAM. I would not trust ASUS BIOS or AI NOS to necessarily set up the best voltage for the RAM, but I don't think that would be a big issue since it posts. Michael "Trinity" wrote in message ... Well folks, to start with. Yes I did buy RAM with A lifetime warranty and it came from OCZ. Yes, my mother board is one that is compatible with 4 GB of Ram. It happens to be an ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe and the BIOS auto configured tthe voltage, RAS and CAS. My power supply is a 600 Watt from XION so I don't think it's a PSU problem. When I installed a clean copy of Windows XP the machine had no problems with it and software had no grief with my machine. It's only the Beta2 versions of Vista that has a problem. "Hilmar" wrote: first thing to check is whether the motherboard is compatible with 4Gb of Ram. "Trinity" wrote in message ... I believe i made a fatal mistake when I upgraded my memory recently. I went from 2 GB of PC3200 to 4 GB of PC4000. After the upgrade Vista had seriuos issues and would not boot at all. I removed Vista and tried a clean install but it seems the it does not care for my new memory, I keep getting error messages when I boot about critical failures and non Paged memory. I had hoped the Blue Screen of Death was behind us for good but it seems that I found it. If somone has knowledge about trying to fix this problem please let me know. |