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wizzer · January 30th, 2008, 09:04 PM

Computer Specs:

A7n8x deluxe motherboard
3200 athlon XP Processor
2 gigs pc3200 ram
Radeon 9550
400 watt powersupply

I recently purchased 3 8 1gb PNY Optima memory to max out my mobo. When I install all three chips the Bios reads them, windows begins to boot, but after the XP splash screen nothing happens...I have tried each chip by itself and thus know none of them are bad. I rebooted with the 3 chips still in and was able to start windows in safe mode with no trouble. When I right click my computer it read all 3 gigs, but when I shut down and restarted to run windows normally, it just goes to a black screen after the windows xp splash screen.

Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do so that I can run all 3 gigs of ram?

January 30th, 2008, 09:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
wizzer Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 131	Windows XP issue with Ram Computer Specs: A7n8x deluxe motherboard 3200 athlon XP Processor 2 gigs pc3200 ram Radeon 9550 400 watt powersupply I recently purchased 3 8 1gb PNY Optima memory to max out my mobo. When I install all three chips the Bios reads them, windows begins to boot, but after the XP splash screen nothing happens...I have tried each chip by itself and thus know none of them are bad. I rebooted with the 3 chips still in and was able to start windows in safe mode with no trouble. When I right click my computer it read all 3 gigs, but when I shut down and restarted to run windows normally, it just goes to a black screen after the windows xp splash screen. Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do so that I can run all 3 gigs of ram?