Vista install BSODs with 4GB RAM, fine with 2

Hello,

I'm installing windows vista Asus vista edition motherboard. I
purchased 4 GB of corsair DDR2 800 mhz RAM, the good stuff. When I try
to boot to the vista CD, it copies the files and then gives me a BSOD:
the bios in this system is not fully ACPI compliant.

Any suggestions? As I type this i have removed 2GB of RAM and I am
installing vista with the remaining 2GB in the computer, no problems
yet. I might try re-adding them after the install, and manually
setting timing and voltage in bios, I also downloaded the latest bios
upgrade.

Has anyone else seen this before?

Thanks,
Bret

Just finished the vista install and re-added the other 2 GB. i get a
blue screen shortly after post, where it should begin loading windows.
the memory diagnostic said that all sticks were good...baffled.

Hi,

I think you have the right approach. I've encountered several systems that
when run with 4GB of ram have to have the timing set manually in the system
BIOS.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Bret" <> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'm installing windows vista Asus vista edition motherboard. I
> purchased 4 GB of corsair DDR2 800 mhz RAM, the good stuff. When I try
> to boot to the vista CD, it copies the files and then gives me a BSOD:
> the bios in this system is not fully ACPI compliant.
>
> Any suggestions? As I type this i have removed 2GB of RAM and I am
> installing vista with the remaining 2GB in the computer, no problems
> yet. I might try re-adding them after the install, and manually
> setting timing and voltage in bios, I also downloaded the latest bios
> upgrade.
>
> Has anyone else seen this before?
>
> Thanks,
> Bret
>

Bret wrote:
> Just finished the vista install and re-added the other 2 GB. i get a
> blue screen shortly after post, where it should begin loading windows.
> the memory diagnostic said that all sticks were good...baffled.
>


There was a similar issue some years ago with Asus boards that sounds
exactly like this. They were supposed to take up to 2GB but after you go
above 1.75 GB they crashed reporting something silly like 5KB of RAM

I mention this because for some reason there seemed only very few users
who had tried the max and all of them had gone through countless
searches etc to find info. Nothing on the Asus site, IIRC it still said
up to 2 GB in the spec.

What makes these situations worse of course is that it just "Might" work
with another make of RAM or some very minor tweak if you could just get
to do it

Bret

What is the error message on the BSOD?

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Bret" <> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I'm installing windows vista Asus vista edition motherboard. I
> purchased 4 GB of corsair DDR2 800 mhz RAM, the good stuff. When I try
> to boot to the vista CD, it copies the files and then gives me a BSOD:
> the bios in this system is not fully ACPI compliant.
>
> Any suggestions? As I type this i have removed 2GB of RAM and I am
> installing vista with the remaining 2GB in the computer, no problems
> yet. I might try re-adding them after the install, and manually
> setting timing and voltage in bios, I also downloaded the latest bios
> upgrade.
>
> Has anyone else seen this before?
>
> Thanks,
> Bret
>

Perhaps this will help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777

Install with 2GB, apply the update from the above link before adding the
other 2GB RAM.

--
Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Bret" <> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I'm installing windows vista Asus vista edition motherboard. I
> purchased 4 GB of corsair DDR2 800 mhz RAM, the good stuff. When I try
> to boot to the vista CD, it copies the files and then gives me a BSOD:
> the bios in this system is not fully ACPI compliant.
>
> Any suggestions? As I type this i have removed 2GB of RAM and I am
> installing vista with the remaining 2GB in the computer, no problems
> yet. I might try re-adding them after the install, and manually
> setting timing and voltage in bios, I also downloaded the latest bios
> upgrade.
>
> Has anyone else seen this before?
>
> Thanks,
> Bret
>

> What is the error message on the BSOD?
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User


Well...

out of the box the mobo was running bios 303. after installing vista
with 2gb i put in the other 2gb and saw a BSOD flash up for a split
second (it always happened before i saw a windows loading screen). I
upgraded the bios to 603, and now the BSOD stays put, and it does it
AFTER the windows loading screen appears and loads for a minute, but
it isnt very informative. no error is displayed. just a typical blue
screen with "disable caching and shadowing" or "try changing video
adapters" with that silly hex error: STOP0x0000000blah blah blah...

ONE TIME After restarting i went into bios and reset all RAM settings
to auto. the PC booted into windows and it found all 4GB! i installed
a driver and restarted, and then got the BSOD again. This was the only
instance that i saw an error displayed: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. And
that was the only time it booted with 4 gb.

Other than the auto settings, i also tried several manual timings,
manual voltage at 2.1, manually setting and lowering the
frequency....nothing yet :-/. Memtest is next, even though windows
said nothing is wrong.

thanks for the input.

-Bret

I would suggest because I did this and it worded fine for me.

Install Vista with only 2GB of memory in the machine. When I tried to
install with 4GB it wouldn't let me.

Then if one stick of memory or two sticks if there dual channel are
slower then the other ones then put then in the DIMM A slots on your
ASUS motherboard. Then put the faster ones in the DIMM B slot. Install
the update from microsoft as suggested and then put in the other two
sticks. Worked for me.

If you have any more problems just let me know.


--
alltheway

- Aaron

ASUS P5ND2-SLI
Intel Pentium D 830 3.0ghz
Corsair XMS PC5400 4GB Dual Channel
EVGA 7800GT x BFG 7800GT SLI
Antec 550w SLI Certified
160 GB WD Vista Ultimate x64
80 GB Hitatchi Windows XP SP2
ACER 22" Widescreen
Logitech 'MX™518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse'
(http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mi...s/187&cl=us,en)

Logitech X-540 5.1

hi jane
i have the same problem & nothing changes also after installing 929777
i get BSOD with 4gb
remove 1 gb and all is ok
also the same problem on vista 64

i use ASUS striker extreme with vista 32
and ASUS p5n32-e sli with vista 64
both with Q6600 cpu and 8800gts

i have same problem on both computers

thanks
zeev

"Jane C" wrote:

> Perhaps this will help:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777
>
> Install with 2GB, apply the update from the above link before adding the
> other 2GB RAM.
>
> --
> Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
> Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
> MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
> "Bret" <> wrote in message
> news: oups.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm installing windows vista Asus vista edition motherboard. I
> > purchased 4 GB of corsair DDR2 800 mhz RAM, the good stuff. When I try
> > to boot to the vista CD, it copies the files and then gives me a BSOD:
> > the bios in this system is not fully ACPI compliant.
> >
> > Any suggestions? As I type this i have removed 2GB of RAM and I am
> > installing vista with the remaining 2GB in the computer, no problems
> > yet. I might try re-adding them after the install, and manually
> > setting timing and voltage in bios, I also downloaded the latest bios
> > upgrade.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this before?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bret
> >
>

Well, I was all ready to reutrn my memory when after a few 'swap in and outs'
ralised the memory was fine.

Mobo : ASUS M2N32-SLI Premium Vista
Memory: 2xCorsair XMS2 (1gb) Plus another matched pair of the same....

Seems to work fine with 2GB, and even 3GB but NOT with 4GB because I get the
BSOD - which looks like 'non-ACPI compatible mobo' (ran the set up disk for
Vista again to confirm this)

Even tried the Hotfix mentioned in this thread but no luck.....

Next suggestion please (other than go back to XP!!!!)

"alltheway" wrote:

>
> I would suggest because I did this and it worded fine for me.
>
> Install Vista with only 2GB of memory in the machine. When I tried to
> install with 4GB it wouldn't let me.
>
> Then if one stick of memory or two sticks if there dual channel are
> slower then the other ones then put then in the DIMM A slots on your
> ASUS motherboard. Then put the faster ones in the DIMM B slot. Install
> the update from microsoft as suggested and then put in the other two
> sticks. Worked for me.
>
> If you have any more problems just let me know.
>
>
> --
> alltheway
>
> - Aaron
>
> ASUS P5ND2-SLI
> Intel Pentium D 830 3.0ghz
> Corsair XMS PC5400 4GB Dual Channel
> EVGA 7800GT x BFG 7800GT SLI
> Antec 550w SLI Certified
> 160 GB WD Vista Ultimate x64
> 80 GB Hitatchi Windows XP SP2
> ACER 22" Widescreen
> Logitech 'MXâ„¢518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse'
> (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mi...s/187&cl=us,en)
>
> Logitech X-540 5.1
>