Gigabyte Motherboard won't run with 8gb Ram..even though it should

KingBoyD

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Hi


I have a gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2 rev.2 , motherboard . Which has a memory max of 8 gb of DDR2 RAM.

However when I actually put to two 4gb sticks in the slots, it loads Windows but then soon Blue screens...!

It will run fine on either stick, but not together. Normally RAM is a painless , quick upgrade, any ideas ?


I'm running : Windows 7 [ and XP dual OS ] , AMD 64x2 6400+ , Nvidia graphics card NVS300 with 1gb memory, new RAM is PC2-4200 533mhz


Thanks

David
 

KingBoyD

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Okay, I had presumed because both worked by themselves that they were fine.

But you're right, the bit that makes them work together might be broken in one of them..

I'll do a memtest check and see..