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#  Sep 23, 2009 at 11:21 PM
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Some months ago, I upgraded from 2 to 4 gigs of ram. However, I was on a 32-bit OS. Today, I decided it was time to upgrade from XP 32-bit to Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.

The Win7 installation took 8 hours, and the OS itself ran extremely sluggishly. I promise I wasn't doing anything stupid to drain system resources.

Removing the two newer sticks of RAM caused the system to run beautifully. I did some googling and determined that I needed to upgrade my BIOS. My motherboard model is MSI p6n sli platinum. The BIOS upgrade from v1.0 to v1.7 was successful.

However, when I put the 2 extra gigs of RAM back in, instead of getting a sluggish performance, I now get no performance. That is to say, the computer doesn't even get to the setup/bios/welcome/whatever screen. Just a black screen that never proceeds anywhere. With 2 gigs of RAM, the computer runs fine.

I ran memtest86+, and my RAM is totally fine.

The same occurs if I have 3 gigs of RAM installed.

Any help would be appreciated. Belarc advisor data:

Operating System System Model
Windows 7 Business (x64) (build 7600)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States) MSI MS-7350 1.0
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.40 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded Board: MSI MS-7350 1.0
Bus Clock: 267 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. V1.7 07/29/2008
Drives Memory Modules c,d
890.18 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
96.18 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42N ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]

ST364032 3AS SCSI Disk Device (640.13 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 5VK03BP7, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD25 00KS-00MJB0 SCSI Disk Device (250.06 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCANK8951877, SMART Status: Healthy 2048 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM4' has 1024 MB

Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 1) 26.22 GB 14.65 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 250.05 GB 19.55 GB free
e: (NTFS on drive 1) 613.92 GB 61.99 GB free

Display

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.1) [Display adapter]
BenQ FP91G+ [Monitor] (19.1"vis, December 2005
#  Sep 24, 2009 at 12:34 AM
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#  Sep 24, 2009 at 1:01 AM
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what was it? bad ram?
#  Sep 24, 2009 at 1:40 AM
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No, I have no idea what it was. I changed nothing and it started working

RAM was fine, I had tested it earlier like I said in my post.

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