Satellite A665-S6094 BIOS Instability with 4GB of RAM

I recently upgraded the RAM in my Sattelite A665-S6094 laptop to 8GB, and I was cheerfully greeted with frequent memory-related bluescreens and an inability to use the sleep function.
The laptop works perfectly with the original 2x 2Gb modules installed, but problems show up if I add any more.
When trying to wake the computer from sleep, it gets to the login screen and promptly shuts down as if I pulled the power. This crash is not logged in the system anywhere.
While in Windows, I periodically get a stop error classified as "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" with no apparent direct cause.
These problems only exist when the installed RAM exceeds the original 4GB size.
I am running the most recent BIOS revision; version 2.20.

Hi sanremo,
I saw the document you suggest and I think it was quite useful. I realized that my processor, my chipset and the system supports 64-bit edition of Windows, so I think I will try to install it. I would like to try Windows XP Pro 64-bit and not Vista, but Toshiba do not supply drivers for XP 64-bit. They have available XP 32-bit and Vista 32-bit & 64-bit. So I will try the Vista Business 64-bit.
Thanks a lot both for your replies.

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