RAM and BSOD troubles

[Joemonkey]

I had 384 megs of ram in my computer, and i got 2 more sticks of 256 megs of ram (same manufacturer as the current memory) in the mail yesterday. i was going to take out my stick of 128 and throw in the other 2 of 256. when i did that, windows 2000 started up w/ a BSOD about some .sys file (i can't remember what it was) and how if this is the first time i've seen it just to reboot and if not to change some BIOS settings. well i rebooted, got it again, reset the BIOS to defaults, and still got the error. so i took out all the ram, and just put in one of the new sticks. now i get an ASPI.sys error. so i took that out, and put in JUST my old stick of 256, and it boots up fine. what the hell is going on? it's all the same manufacturer (Zeus components) and they've worked in my system just fine until now... help!

Update: i put in my old stick of 256, and a new one, and now i get the BSOD's that auto reboot, and it's a different file each time... wtf is up?? i know this ram works w/ my motherboard, friend of mine has same ram and same mobo w/ win98se and it works fine... should i nuke win2k and start over? if everything is fine until the OS, shouldn't that make it the culprit? thing is i don't understand HOW win2k could screw up cuz of new/more memory.

 

[Joemonkey]

bump... help!

 

[Gunbuster]

So it only gets errors with the new ram?

Errors with each of the new sticks? did you try them each in the board alone?

 

[Joemonkey]

yeah, i've tried them in every combination... when i put JUST a new stick, i get some weird IRQL_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH error

time for reformat i guess...

 

[Gunbuster]

Sounds like you got a bad stick of ram.

How will a reload effect the problem, since you dont have one with ram you know works?

 

[Joemonkey]

i'm probably going to take this ram over to a friend's house who has a KT7A... since it's essentially the same motherboard, and he has win98se, if it works for him i'll know win2k is the culprit i guess

 

[Joemonkey]

another update:

i put one of the new 256 sticks in my celeron 600 setup, and it worked fine. tried the other, and i got a "windows protection error, must restart windows" every time i booted up. so, i tried JUST the one that worked in the celeron in mine, still got BSOD when win2k booted up. should i get ahold of the manufacturer of my motherboard, of the ram, or the place where i bought it??