MSI x58 Platinum booting issues

[colemancb]

New custom PC with an MSI x58 Platinum, core i7 processor. 24gb DDR3 ram.

First boot -- the PC had no boot device. Shut off by itself after a few minutes.

Second boot on Vista installation disc -- Died seemingly the same amount of time during "Windows is loading files."

NOW, we took out 3 sticks of ram, and am in the process of installing Vista, everything is fine.

The power supply is 600 watts. The videocard is a GTX285.

Could the RAM we took out be defective, or could the sheer amount of RAM be tasking the power supply too much?

Thanks for the input.

[ripken204]

so you have 4 sticks of ram in?

try running just 3 sticks in triple channel.

if that doesnt work then try each stick by itself, one may be defective.

[davismccarn]

From your post, you have already identified a ram problem and it is highly unlikely that you are overloading the power supply (each module only uses a few watts)

Get the free version of http://www.memtest86.com (get the ISO and burn it to a CD) Then, simply boot it and let it run for a few hours. If the bottom stays empty, your ram is good, if it gets any errors, it isn't.

[ripken204]

From your post, you have already identified a ram problem and it is highly unlikely that you are overloading the power supply (each module only uses a few watts)

Get the free version of http://www.memtest86.com (get the ISO and burn it to a CD) Then, simply boot it and let it run for a few hours. If the bottom stays empty, your ram is good, if it gets any errors, it isn't.

memtest will only be helpful when testing each stick of ram on its own. as you said its probably a ram problem so now identifying which stick is bad is the next step.

[pointertovoid]

Defective Ram, maybe. Memtest86+.

Ram drawing too much power, no! It's negligible, compared with the graphics card and the Cpu.

Some bug with Vista or the Bios or the chipset at 24GB: maybe.

You didn't tell which flavour of Vista shall run on this computer. Home Basic stops at 8GB and Home Premium at 16GB - though I'd expect the installation disk to tell something then.