Hi - I think I've seen other threads regarding my question but my wife and I had our first kid recently and I've fallen behind on defects/bug reports.

 

My build is in my signature block below, and when I use more than 4GB of RAM (I have the Menu Default set to a custom boot that limits my RAM to 4GB) it restarts/crashes pretty quickly. It wasn't always this way, and I thought I read that Tom said that shouldn't be an issue.

 

Thanks for any information. I am on my way to a family gathering so folks can see the kid-o, so I can't post too much. If anyone has any useful information I'd be super happy to read later (or at the family gathering on my phone ;-)).

 

Thanks a bunch once more!

As far as I now there is no outstanding issue that limits you to 4GB of RAM.  I would suspect  you either have some duff RAM, or the timings/voltage for the RAM you do have are not set correctly in your systems bios.

 

I had it working in earlier versions, though. RC11 or so started the crashes if I recall.

I had it working in earlier versions, though. RC11 or so started the crashes if I recall.

RAM can go bad.  Also possible that earlier releases did not end up using the RAM in the same way so an underlying problem was just not being triggered.

What does a 16 hour run of Memtest indicate?

I'll check it out tonight overnight. Thanks for the suggestions - I hadn't thought that the older versions may not have "triggered" this.

Thanks for the advice, guys. I updated Memtest on my USB stick and ran through it and found the culprit.

 

I was able to take the dirtable command out of my GO script, too... like I said, with a newborn I have just a *little* less time at the moment so I appreciate the support!

 

(I was up way too late last night with this, as it was the first time I was able to downgrade my HDD card controllers to .15, do the Memtest, and fix a red-balled 3TB hard drive  . I still have a few other issues that I'm looking to work out, but I think that I have it running better than I have in four or five months!).