two new sticks of RAM - now my XP shuts down

[johnnybrat]

Installed two sticks - one Gig each - for a total of 2Gig
Made sure that it was installed correctly but still doesn't work. Tried both seperatly in each slot and it will work fine.
But both of them together no luck
E-Machine w6409 3.0 Ghz/800 Mhz/fsb/1M l2 cache
processor is 531
That is pretty much all I know. I could find out more if you need me to. PLEASE HELP.
Thanks

[Tan_Za]

Are both of the memory stick exacly the same because that could be a reason or if your mother board doesn't support any more than 1gb of ram?

Have a read of your mother board manual and see what it says on ram installation.

Tan_Za

[johnnybrat]

got the sticks from tiger direct- they said the sticks were 100%match for my computer & they said max gig was2

[Kurtiskain]

So it will still boot with both sticks in?