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Windows crashes with 16 GB RAM, Ubuntu runs fine

Jeff7181

Jeff7181

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Newegg had a sale and I bought 16 GB of DDR3 memory for my laptop, a Lenovo Edge 14. Windows wouldn't boot after installing it, the pre-install environment won't even run, it locks up and I have to power off the laptop.

I tried Windows 7, Windows 8, and Server 2012 - all x64 flavors. All do similar things.

So I decided to try Ubuntu since I just download 12.04 LTS. Using the live CD right now to post this and it works perfectly. Why can't Windows deal with the memory?

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/5222/screenshotfrom201209130.png
 
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I have 16GB of RAM in my PC, and Windows runs fine.

You may want to check with the vendor of your computer/motherboard to see if this is a known issue.
 
Seconded hhhd1.

Odds are if you did anything to push the usage up on Ubuntu you would start seeing segfaults or abends.
 
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