4GB of RAM

Hey i just recently purchased another 2GB of ram so i would have 4GB total but when i put all four sticks af ram in my computer i can't load vista and very get past the bios, but when i take out i stick so that its just 3GB it works fine. The ram it self is fine and not the problem and neither is the slot on the mother board also my bios recognized the 4GB but it won't load into Vista, im thinking it could be a power thing but i have a 600WATT PS so i really don't know what to do but its messing up my Dual channel configuration any help would be great,

ps. System specs below, oh and i have the lastest version of my bios

Thanks

I know that vista 32-bit won't recongnize all 4 GB but i should still be able to boot into Windows with the ram installedReven_88

thats how bad it sucks, cant handle a little more beef

I heard that vista cant handle more than 3 gigs of ram, because it sucks ;)smarb001

[QUOTE="smarb001"]I heard that vista cant handle more than 3 gigs of ram, because it sucks ;)yoyo462001

aw man the rig im getting has 3x1gig ram :x

Vista 32-bit won't recognize more than 3 GB, you need 64-bit for 4GB.sca321

[QUOTE="sca321"]Vista 32-bit won't recognize more than 3 GB, you need 64-bit for 4GB.cubiclegeek

Are you using Vista 64?

I found this.... seem there's a lot of people having your problem.... I only skimmed it but it seems that more recent posts suspect that newer bios updated are causing the problem.... but whatever, I'll let you weed thru the250 or so posts of this thread.

https://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1292561&SiteID=17

this patch comes up a lot in that thread, but seems that it has mixed results....

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=91672C7C-614B-404C-850C-377541E93C18&displaylang=en

I heard that vista cant handle more than 3 gigs of ram, because it sucks ;)smarb001

I've heard some people out there are so ignorant they believe everything they hear. ;)