re: W10 will not boot with 32GB RAM installed [Update: Solved]

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So you gave up on not doing a fresh install?

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I've dc'd my drives and am installing shite to my spare ssd.

I *might* have a solution.
W10 install media flat out would not work - wouldnt even error out - it simply wouldnt do anything. So...
Installed a deployment image on the spare drive, its older - 1709 - but everything newer is full of biz apps. after a few hiccups i am up and running. sees all 32GBs. working on drivers now, we'll see if something takes a shite.

for those interested, i was getting a xc0221 or xc07a error, depending on the occurrence, which is a kernel paging error. usually that means new RAM, but again memtest has said all of this RAM is ok - and so does the linux install.