P7N Diamond - Can't boot with 4GB Ram (no picture)

I wonder if there's any settings I need to modify in order to make my system to work with 4 gigs of ram (4x1GB) ?
Is there any known issues I should be aware of?
I really appreciate any help I can get!

Sorry about the lack of info, I tend to rush things when I get frustrated.
I bought two kits at the same time, as far as I know they are identical. I haven't played around with the BIOS apart from adjusting the voltage to 2.1 (which didn't improve the situation)
It does boot fine with two sticks, as well as three.
Any BIOS settings that comes to mind?
Let me know if you need more info!

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