of 2012, I'm thinking you have a motherboard that maxes out at 4GB and won't run 8GB. Did you confirm the mobo had 8GB capability first?
Hi there,
I'm having some trouble booting up my PC. I bought it pre-built 3 years ago and have used it pretty much every day to play video games and produce music. I can't recall any time the system has performed under expectations.
However, around a week ago I started having trouble booting up the computer. It would get stuck at the screen displayed in the screenshot below. After a few restarts I tried unplugging all USB devices, and it worked for a week or so. (Highlighted in case that information tells you something.) Then that trick stopped working after a few days.
After some googling I found some people with similar problems (although slightly different in "symptoms"), and a lot of answers pointed to the RAM. So I unplugged the RAM stick in slot B1 (the motherboard has 4 slots) and now the computer would start. I tried both sticks in slot A1 and they both work alone, so far. But when I plug them both in (any combination of slots) I get stuck on the screen in the screenshot below.
Additional information:
If both RAM sticks are plugged in and all USB devices unplugged, when I get stuck at the screen and try to plug in a USB device, the screen goes black and then nothing happens.
If anyone has gone through this problem before or knows in which end to start troubleshooting, please help me out.
I'm a newbie when it comes to hardware, please let me know what computer specs I need to include in this post, and I will edit it.
Specs:
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-GD55
RAM Sticks: Vengeance® — 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9)
http://i.imgur.com/1cwq3H8.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1cwq3H8.jpg

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