Memory causing computer to crash?

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rjbrittain11

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Okay folks, I probably got a dumb question, but hopefully you folks could clear the tunnel for me and shed some light on this for me.

I recently put another Gig of memory into my custom built computer (I had 1GB in it already of 2 512MB Corsair sticks). the Gig that I just recently put in was also the same memory, 2 512MB sticks. So now I have 4 512MB sticks in there. Following me? Okay, great. Now my Motherboard hold 4GB, and has 4 slots. All of them being filled now. Now my question is this: Could this be causing my current restarts? So is having 4 512MB sticks worse than having 2 1GB sticks?

Heres the problem: With no warning, my computer just restarts, and gives no explanation why. No messages come up, nothing. I have dissected this a little bit and I'm at a loss. I know its not CPU Temp, or any other temps for that matter, cause I have been monitoring that. I have ran Memtest86 for a long time without any errors. So what can this be? What else should I be looking for that may be causing these random restarts? Thanks.
 
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im guessing that youve checked all of your connections, like to the HDD and everything, another thing i can think of is testing each stick individually and with different combos of each other to see if one stick is bad or not...i dont know though, im not really an expert:D
 
CopperKid said:
testing each stick individually and with different combos of each other to see if one stick is bad or not...
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That was my next quest. Cables all seem to be properly plugged in a fine.

Also, another note, Ive never had a problem restarting when it does, it just boots up like normal. I don't even get the "Start in Safe Mode" prompt.
 
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