How do I get Win2k to boot with my new RAM??

[Deelow]

I have 3-32meg dimms in my system (96 total). I just got in a stick of 128megs. I can't boot to Win2k using any combination of these dimms except when I have in the 3-32megs. It comes up to a blue screen. For example...1-128,1-128 + 2-32, 2-32, etc won't work. Only when I have 3-32megs in can I boot up. Win98 (which I'm booted to now) works just fine...192megs right now.

Any ideas??

 

[monopoly]

have you tried your new 128 w/o the other 32s?

 

[Deelow]

Yep, I've tried the 128 alone, the 128 with 2-32's, and just 2-32's...all of which boot in Win98 but give me that same blue error screen while trying to load Win2k. The only way it seems to work is if I have the original 2-32's in all at the same time.

 

[AndyHui]

Try booting up in safe mode. That happened to me once.....I put Win2K into Hibernate (which effectively turns off the machine) and stuck in an extra 128MB of RAM....after it powered up again, it gave me fits...

 

[Deelow]

Tried Safe Mode many times...still get that darn blue screen...something about a page fault in a non-paged area, or something like that. Then it goes on to give some memory addresses and something to do with ntoskrnl.exe. I booted to the cd and did the full repair (including system files) from the Emergency Repair Disk, but that didn't help.

Another weird thing about this is that if I don't have the original 3 dimms in the right order it won't boot to Win2k either. I think I'm gonna try to reinstall Win2k over the top of the installation that is on there now.

Thanks for the replies.