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    2x2GB RAM sticks and gfx card, won't boot. But take either the gfx or 1 RAM out, and no bother. Ideas?

    Resolved. Turns out the CPU was struggling with a corrupt video driver for the graphics card the second after the POST had resolved. So the high DPC was preventing the memory from initialising properly. I used latencymon to troubleshoot this issue, and it worked an absolute charm. I would...
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    2x2GB RAM sticks and gfx card, won't boot. But take either the gfx or 1 RAM out, and no bother. Ideas?

    The slots work perfectly well. The RAM sticks cna be interchanged or used independently in each slot without issue. Also the motherboard will not support anything over 2GB per stick, per dimm slot. Otherwise I would have already used that method, unfortunately it's not a choice. Just noticed...
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    2x2GB RAM sticks and gfx card, won't boot. But take either the gfx or 1 RAM out, and no bother. Ideas?

    The motherboard does support all 2 RAM sticks and the dedicated graphics card. I had them running previously on the system fine, with an early gfx card. I bought a dual core upgrade for it and it worked fine also, for a time. And then I started having issues. I cross checked that the processor...
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    2x2GB RAM sticks and gfx card, won't boot. But take either the gfx or 1 RAM out, and no bother. Ideas?

    The system runs fine on both 32-64 bit windows 7, however running the 64 bit version currently is not an option as it takes twice as much of the limited resources available to it until such times as I can get all the components running together. The power supply I'm using is a 550w, but despite...
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    2x2GB RAM sticks and gfx card, won't boot. But take either the gfx or 1 RAM out, and no bother. Ideas?

    Okay so here's my issue. My system will boot past the BIOS splash screen and load into windows with 2 sticks of 2GB RAM and using the motherboards onboard graphics, but will not boot past the BIOS with the dedicated card in. AND if I remove 1 RAM stick at random and boot with the dedicated card...