My 4 gigs of memory won't load!! help?

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Darth Menace

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hi, i bought 2 chips of 2 gigs of laptop memory at futureshop today (canadian Best buy) anyways I currently have two 1 gig chips an wanted to speed up my computer so i bought two 2 gig chips. anyways i DO have the 64 bit vista ultimate, so i figure 4 gigs of memory is on sale and my computer can read it so i had might as well get it. I load it and it started to load and then goes to a screen that says something in the ways of something not being right due to new hardware or software. please insert windows boot disc and choos "fix computer" would you like to start in safe mode, start normal, start as last successful boot. anyways obviously those arent the same words, but im sure you know the screen im talking about.

I chose start normal and it starts and then restarts and goes back to the same screen i am talking about.

I thought one chip might be bad but i loaded each one seperately and they load fine.

I tried to load one of my 1 gig and one of the 2 gig chips together and it did the same crashing thing.

anyways i was wondering if there is a special step to loading 4 gigs? should i insert my vista disc and click fix computer? any suggestions? my computer is new enough to handle 4 gigs of memory (toshiba satellite L300-07N)
anyways if you have any suggestions for me to be successful please help me out?

thanks in advance
 
are you sure that the memory matches the memory that you have right now? Different laptops have different memory names.

ex: on laptop could be PC-3200 RAM while another could be PC-4200.

Check that you have the right memory.
 
i did check when it wasnt working and the memory is the exact same right down to the company. only difference is the 2 gigs compared to 1. and if you wonder why i replied so fast the answer is yes i am sitting here reloading my computer waiting for answers! haha, i am so excited to get it going
 
hi here is my second edition. maybe it will help more.
I tried the 4 gigs in my HP laptop and it loaded fine and like a bat out of hell. so i thought maybe its the place that my laptop memory clips into. But then why wouldnt I have a problem with my current memory (1 gig of kingston memory in each slot)?? that's my problem. the memory works in another computer which makes me think its not the memory, but my current memory I have works in my toshiba laptop fine which makes me think its not the laptop memory slots.

any suggestions??
 
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