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I hate Vista!!! Sli Trouble with 4 GB RAM

Kzang151Kzang151 Member Posts: 149
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Ok well this is a weird problem. With 2 GB RAM, I can run SLi, with 4 GB RAM on vista 64 bit, it will work just fine. However, when I use 4 GB RAM on vista with SLi on, it turns black screen of death and doesn't do anything when i try to boot up windows. I have updated directx 10, the GPU drivers, and motherboard drivers. Why will it let me run SLi with 2 gb ram but not 4 gb of ram?

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  • ElapsedElapsed Member UncommonPosts: 2,329

    Possibly bad RAM, not Vista's problem. Run memtest.

  • Kzang151Kzang151 Member Posts: 149

    what memory test?

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  • JennysMindJennysMind Member UncommonPosts: 869

    I run Vista 64 Premium with 2 7800gtx cards, plus 2 gig of ram and haven't had any issues with Vista. Now 3rd party apps that will work on Vista 32 and not Vista 64 is another matter.

    BTW I'm becoming fairly used to Vista and like it better than XP. Although I also have a primary HD that runs XP for older applications that won't run on Vista.

     

  • METALDRAG0NMETALDRAG0N Member Posts: 1,680

    Originally posted by Kzang151


    what memory test?
    Here try tis link i found it by typing memtest in google not hard you know.

     

    http://www.memtest.org/

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  • veravexveravex Member Posts: 10

    what the hell is SLi? 

    whatisthatlongbuttonatthebottomofthekeyboardfor?

  • noaknoak Member Posts: 44

    vista does not recognize 4 g of ram in sli

  • JennysMindJennysMind Member UncommonPosts: 869
    Originally posted by veravex


    what the hell is SLi? 

    SLI stands for Scalable Link Interface. What it does is link 2 video cards together for more powerful graphics. I have 2 Nvidia 7800gtx cards linked by SLi. You will have to purchase a motherboard that has this capability though.

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