X201 - upgrading to 8GB of ram - Starting windows hangs

I just bought a used X201 (non tablet).  It came with 4GB of RAM (2x2GB).  I loaded windows 7 pro 64bit on a new Solid state drive and the little laptop worked great.  I work for a company that recently purchased dozens of new X230's and T430 laptops.  When they purchased these new machines, they upgraded all the memory to 16GB...which means the vendor removed the original 2x4GB modules to put in 2x8GB.  So, I have a drawer FULL of brand new 4GB memory modules (dozens of them).  I figured I would try and upgrade this X201 I just bought to 8GB of ram since I had so many 4GB stick laying around not being used.  When I put in two of the 4GB sticks, the laptop hangs at "Starting Windows", but it passes all BIOS tests just fine and does appear to at least start windows.  With only ONE 4GB stick, the computer boots just fine.  With one 4GB and one 2GB (total of 6GB) the computer boots just fine.  I've tried a bunch of different 4GB sticks to make sure one wasn't bad, but these are all brand new and there is no way I have that many bad sticks (plus, they all work fine when they are by themselves).  Everything i've read says that these X201's will take a max of 8GB, but I just can't get this laptop to work with two 4GB sticks.  One difference is, the new 4GB sticks are PC3-12800 modules, where as the original 2GB that came with this X201 are PC3-10600.  However, when used in tandem, they work fine (one 4GB and one 2GB).  I should have put in the 8GB of ram before I loaded Windows, but I've done a lot of install work and hate to reload windows at this point...and I am not sure that would even work.  Has this happened to anyone else?

I would be also interested in the cause since I've also seen this behaviour. I tried the 2x 4GB Crucial shown below in my X201, two X301 and the T520 and didn't work either:
DDR-10600 worked with no problems in all aforementioned machines.
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