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January 12, 2008 at 01:44 AM
kebakent

New ram – strange hardware issues and BSOD in vista

by kebakent . Updated 18 years, 6 months ago

Hi
I recently installed 4GB (2*2GB) of Kingston Valueram in my system. My Motherboard is a MSI K9VGM-V, and I am running Dual-boot with Vista and XP.
Since then I have had strange issues. Vista will reboot after 2 min every time I boot it, and neither will detect my onboard soundcard. I can succesfully run XP without sound.
I used to only have 1 GB ram and everything worked fine.
Also, I have troed to install a flobbydrive in order to test my new ram with memtest34, But I can’t get it to work. Dunno if that is related.

I can only see 3 GB of ram, but I believe the last 1 GB is reserved for System use or something like that. I am okay with that, but would like to find out how to fix vista.

I was thinking along the lines of flashing my bios, or maybe I should adjust something in the bios to account for the new ram.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this issue?

Kent

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