I’d check if the 8Gb alone boots, to know if it is that particular module causing the problem or something else.
I’d also try to find when it starts happening. By this I mean which hrev started to show the problem, and which was the last working. If you didn’t wipe previous states, that’s when they become really handy.
Then collect syslogs and open a ticket on Trac with syslog, detailed infos, etc. Not only, it shouldn’t hang but, if it wasn’t before it is a regression.
no issue w other OSes - no hw issue
I tried beta 4 and some nightlies after
I was not experiencing such issue before I installed additional 8gb - today I removed it and got it working again
It’s not the best to use different kind of DDRs as they have different timings, but they should generally work unless those timings are set manuallly in bios (though I don’t know if recent mobos allow this). Have you tried booting only with the one with 8 GB?
How many Ram channels does the mobo have?