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Minecrafter96 · Mar 28, 2013

Heres the situation, i have a Asus P7p33d-E lx motherboard. im running windows 7 pro 64bit. i have always ran on 4 gigs of ram (2 sticks of 2) and have recently gotten into more 'intensive' gaming requiring more ram. After raising some money up by selling some games i bought 2 sticks of 4 gig coarsair ddr3 ram. i attempted to install it and boot up. only to find it will boot untill 'starting windows' then freeze and crash with the blue screen error 'irql not less or equal' however it will start/run fine with my origional 2 sticks in alone. i have already attempted to set the timing/voltage of the ram in the bios to no avail. The bios does however state that it has 8 gigs of ram, so my suspicion is its an issue with windows. any help is much appreciated.

imaurer269 · Mar 28, 2013

Not finding any info on that mobo you listed but sounds like the memory you bought is not compatible or bad. Try using just one stick of the new memory. It's not a windows issue

ubercake · Mar 28, 2013

You may very well have a bad stick of ram. You have 4 RAM slots on that motherboard.

Try booting with 1 of the 2GB sticks in the Channel A1 (blue) and 1 of the 4GB sticks in B1. Can you boot to Windows?

If yes, that stick is OK. Shut down and replace the 4GB in A1 with the other and try to start. If no, that stick is probably bad or not compatible.

If no for stick two, that stick is probably bad or not compatible.

Please try that and let us know the outcome.

Minecrafter96 · Mar 28, 2013

ubercake :

I tried the test and neither started up, however it did not give me a bluescreen it just started the booting over again. i got curious and pressed the infamous 'memok' button and it restarted and got to the 'starting windows' screen and froze.

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