Comments on: How Fix Windows 7 BSOD Due to 4GB RAM

By: purchases settlements

purchases settlements — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:44:24 +0000

I had this issue with an old Compaq laptop, and not one could figure out why, I found out about a year ago that they had configured the thing so it wouldn’t recognize added memory. I wonder if there is a work around for that now.

By: NikoOeyes

NikoOeyes — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:42:47 +0000

I was having this problem on my laptop with vista. After days of being frustrated with thinking I had faulty ram or my computers memory slots had gone up I did another search and found this page. I found a patch and WAL-LA! Your solutions worked! Thanks so much!

By: How To Enable More Than 4GB Memory in Windows Vista and Windows 7 « hohohk Technical Journal

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:31:43 +0000

[...] could cause a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) if the system had 4GB (or more) RAM. I managed to find a fix for that issue. But, I had another minor niggle to figure out. Although I paid for 4GB of RAM, [...]

By: zayed

zayed — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:30:06 +0000

The cause of the problem is generally windows corruption.
If nothing works then ur last resort is
1.Create a sysytem image of ur windows c: drive(if u have installed windows in this drive else use in which u did) on an external or some other drive of ur hard disk. by using backup option in control panel.
2.install a new copy of windows(format the c: drive b4 installing). After sucessful installation… restore ur system by using system restore with the system image u created(remember step 1).
i faced the same problem n only this mothod worked after trying everything and even the microsoft’s solution.

By: worked!

worked! — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:08:08 +0000

adding the 2x1gb to have 6gb ended worked. then I changed the max memory to 6gb and now its like it was before (freezing at boot). …

By: worked!

worked! — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:20:38 +0000

it worked with 2x2gb corsair xms2 that caused bluescreen on win 7 64bit before. thanks. now will try adding the old 2x1gb

By: Yowan

Yowan — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:44:20 +0000

Its just a PAE hack that is only beneficial if you use PAE enabled applications which are rare.
Its in no way a solution. 32-bit systems are limited to 4GB and this patch only adds up a 4-bit extension making your OS 36-bit. The real modern solution is to use 64-bit

By: Komodo Dragon

Komodo Dragon — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:56:29 +0000

Wow, sounds like a really simple solution but why does MS not make it an automatic detection instead of the user having to go down this route of booting into safe mode and manually telling the OS how much RAM there is?

By: Jimmy PIERRE

Jimmy PIERRE — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:38:59 +0000

Sorry Jean,

No luck. Wiith Linux, openSUSe and SUSE Enterprise however, I can “see” the 4GB.

Cheers,
J

By: used tires

used tires — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:40:31 +0000

Did you figure it out Jimmy? would be great if you posted here the solution

-Jean

By: Yowan

Yowan — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:34:56 +0000

The advance boot options are for Debugging purposes only. Changing these values with not in anyway increase your performance because the computer is well aware of what the capabilities of your hardware already is.

So this is another fake ‘tweak’

By: Shameka Baylock

Shameka Baylock — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:01:06 +0000

I respect your piece of work, thankyou for all the good content .

By: paul

paul — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:42:06 +0000

Guys i found that win 7 64 bit crashes with 4 gb but is fine under that amount, the solution is to boot with 2 or 3 gb and update he graphic driver to 64 bit version and all your motherboard drivers, then it should boot all the ram you have succesfully, do not know if this helps the 32 bit version though

By: Gil C

Gil C — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:28:24 +0000

Sorry, that should be bcdedit.exe and not bcedit.exe.

Cheers.

By: Gil C

Gil C — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:20:24 +0000

for Mike,

You’re probably using a customized ripped version of Windows Vista or Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit, like the TinY Editions. These have a lot of features removed, most importantly the HyperVisor features, DEP and PAE. You’ll need to use bcedit.exe to modify your boot parameters to reenable PAE.

You can’t boot in safe mode, so remove enough RAM to keep it below 4 GB. Boot up normally and you’ll be just fine with under 4 GB of RAM. Then run cmd.exe or Command Prompt, and enter “bcedit.exe /set PAE ForceEnable” without the quotes (of course!). Then power off, plug the extra RAM module right back in and Windows will now boot with the extra RAM without any problems and even start using it right away (though 32 bit OSes will only be able to use 3.4 GB of your 4 gigs available).