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Max Ram + Video Card Causing Problems.
« on: May 18, 2009, 01:15:42 PM »
Ok so I have two 1gb sticks of ram both are Kingston and new without errors. My motheboard supports up to 2gb ram. 2Gb of ram runs fine without a video card installed. I have tried 2 different Nvidia cards and have gotten the same problem when I use 2Gb ram. Previous card was 256k and my present is NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128k ram. I have updated all drivers. Played with Bios but I am noob with that. With the 2Gb of ram installed and GPU I get BSOD ram error msg. What I guess is the ram on the GPU is putting me over the limit or something.

Any suggestions or solutions are greatly appriciated thanks.

::Edit:: Meant to post system stats.

Windows:               Windows XP5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer:     7.0.5730.13
Memory (RAM):          1024 MB
CPU Info:              AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+
CPU Speed:             2157.5 MHz
Sound card:            Vinyl AC'97 Audio (WAVE)
Display Adapters:      NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT | NetMeeting driver | RDPDD Chained DD
Network Adapters:      Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC - Packet Scheduler Miniport
CD / DVD Drives:       D: PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-112D | E: PLEXTOR CD-R   PX-W5224A | H: YMAX
Mouse:                 5 Button Wheel Mouse Present
Hard Disks:            C:  88.3GB | F:  23.4GB
Hard Disks - Free:     C:  57.4GB | F:  17.0GB
USB Controllers:       5 host controllers.
Manufacturer:          Phoenix/Award Technologies, LTD
Product Make:          MK77M-8XN
BIOS Info:             AT/AT COMPATIBLE | 08/02/04 | KM400  - 42302e31
Battery:               No Battery
Motherboard:           AOpen MK77M-8XN
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Re: Max Ram + Video Card Causing Problems.
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2009, 01:16:41 PM »
Can you confirm that it works with less RAM and the same video card?

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Re: Max Ram + Video Card Causing Problems.
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2009, 01:21:02 PM »
Yes all works fine with less ram.
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Re: Max Ram + Video Card Causing Problems.
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2009, 10:43:42 PM »
Ok I talked to a shop and he confirmed some computers log the GPU as ram and thought he never saw a BSOD there were similar errors. Fixed it by switching to 1.5gb ram.

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