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8GB RAM (3.95 usable)

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October 17, 2014 9:44:17 AM

I have a huge amount of my RAM being reserved.I have tried reseating the ram in different slots many times and i cant memory remap in my bios because its MSI. I have also unchecked my max memory limit.

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October 17, 2014 9:49:37 AM

Is your OS 32 or 64bit?
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October 17, 2014 9:55:47 AM

cliffro said:
Is your OS 32 or 64bit?


64 bit
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October 17, 2014 10:06:02 AM

Verify the compatibility of your ram with your specific motherboard. You should find documentation on the MSI website.
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October 17, 2014 10:15:57 AM

Andy Chow said:
Verify the compatibility of your ram with your specific motherboard. You should find documentation on the MSI website.


I have also done that and the RAM is fine
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October 17, 2014 10:38:07 AM

Check the bios and see how much is allocated for integrated graphics.
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October 17, 2014 10:45:04 AM

What's the exact model of your motherboard and RAM? And two sticks or four? It would help to know.

Also, are you using a standalone graphics card, or integrated graphics (the latter of which can "reserve" a chunk of your RAM for their use)?

I have also heard of one situation like this where a guy was having the exact same problem and none of the above were the answer, and finally he managed to get all 8GB recognized by manually lowering the speed one step (e.g., from 1600 MHz to 1333 MHz). It turned out it was one of those boards that gave supported speeds as DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333, DDR3-1600 (O.C.) ... etc. So it was just struggling with his sticks on auto settings. I assume he could've gotten them back to normal by "overclocking" them to their correct speed, but I never found out if he did.



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October 17, 2014 10:50:10 AM

capt_taco said:
What's the exact model of your motherboard and RAM? And two sticks or four? It would help to know.

Also, are you using a standalone graphics card, or integrated graphics (the latter of which can "reserve" a chunk of your RAM for their use)?

I have also heard of one situation like this where a guy was having the exact same problem and none of the above were the answer, and finally he managed to get all 8GB recognized by manually lowering the speed one step (e.g., from 1600 MHz to 1333 MHz). It turned out it was one of those boards that gave supported speeds as DDR3-1066, DDR3-1333, DDR3-1600 (O.C.) ... etc. So it was just struggling with his sticks on auto settings. I assume he could've gotten them back to normal by "overclocking" them to their correct speed, but I never found out if he did.





I have a msi ffx-990 gd65 motherboard and 2 patriot signature 4gb sticks of ram. I have a asus 760 dedicated graphics card too. Is it worth changing the speed of my ram ive never done it before and dont want to take any risks.
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October 17, 2014 11:10:10 AM

Hmm, that motherboard ought to be able to handle anything up to 1600 with no overclock.

I don't know the exact specs of your RAM, although most of the Patriot Signature series look like standard DDR3-1333 and 1.5V, so that shouldn't be an issue. However, it may be worth going into the BIOS and trying to set the timings and voltage manually to the same as the stock settings of the RAM. Not raising or lowering them, just setting them to what they're supposed to be instead of "auto." You can't "hurt" anything this way unless you dramatically raise the voltage; just leave that at spec and you'll be fine, the worst that can happen from setting the speed is the system will crash and you'll have to go back into the BIOS and re-set it to the way it was.

Another thing you may want to try is to download CPU-z and check which speed your RAM is actually running at. If it's something other than stock, that could be an indicator of an issue. (btw: if it's running at exactly half of the rated speed, don't worry; if it is dual channel you multiply by 2).



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