jmgarris Posted March 15, 2012 Report Share Posted March 15, 2012 So here's the deal... I'm not an utter noob when it comes to computers, but I'm completely befuddled by my current situation. I recently installed windows 7 on my computer. To do so, I had to take out one stick of my G.skill 2 gb 1333 RAM. Now that windows 7 has been installed, I can't reinstall the RAM I took out. Every time I attempt to boot Windows with more than 2 gb, I don't get very far. The system says "Starting WIndows", and it stalls... permanently. It doesn't move forward. That, or it restarts and continues a vicious cycle of restarting. I should probably mention that I installed windows 7 over windows xp, with Windows xp being the 32 bit version and windows 7 being the 64 bit. I've run memtest on each stick of ram individually, and no errors show up. But the minute I have both sticks of RAM in there it doesn't boot. Each and every motherboard slot is fine (More than 10+ test repetitions on both). I've used both sticks together in a friend's computer, and both work great. I don't understand what's going on. Can someone help me out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 Do you have four slots for memory on your motherboard, if you do are they colour coded.As some motherboards work on 1-3 and 2-4, rather than 1-2 and 3-4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmgarris Posted March 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 Do you have four slots for memory on your motherboard, if you do are they colour coded.As some motherboards work on 1-3 and 2-4, rather than 1-2 and 3-4.Hey Alan. Yeah, my motherboard is the 790FX-GD70. It has four slots, dual channel possible. It would be best to use both of the first slots, closest to the processor, as they would be more efficiently utilized. But that said, I've tried both ganged and unganged modalities, with every combination attempted using two sticks of the same RAM. 1,3:1,4;2,3;2,4;3,4. The same result as stated above occurs, with the system incapable of booting windows 7, but the BIOS registering the new hardware. It stops at exactly the same place, with the 4 windows failing to fly out of the darkness and into position into the recognized windows symbol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmgarris Posted March 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 I'm going to try to take off my gpu's (crossfired 5770's) as I've heard that the crossfiring tech can mess things up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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