Re: vista WON'T boot with 4gb

Of course. Some mobos and memory combinations have no trouble at all.
Anyway, I am not troubleshooting it. I am replacing mine. My post was in
response to the OP.

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> On 30-Dec-2007, "Colin Barnhorst" <> wrote:
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>> >>> >everything is 100% stable with 2GB, but when i add the 2nd 2gb vista
>> >>> >will not boot.
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> Can depend on the brand of memory, and the chips
> memory organisation.
> Crucial and a few others are using the D9HNL
> memory chip (Google for D9HNL) .
> I'm running 4GB of Crucial D9HNL based memory,
> and Vista Ultimate 64bit, with no stability or
> booting problems.
> Not impossible but a quality PSU might help,
> I note that during boot ASUS (processor) Q'fan ramps
> up to top speed, suggesting that during boot
> the CPU is running 100%, so boot may
> be the PSU's worst case load.
> After boot everything go pretty well silent.
> I'm using Antec, but there are many PSU's that
> are much better than the cheap ones packaged
> with some cases.