Hi guys,
Over the past few years I've slowly upgraded an old HP computer from stock to a completely separate computer. Last week I got the final piece, new RAM and decided to take all the parts from the old computer and put them back together to reform the stock computer. I had reset the HDD to factory settings as all the components were the default from factory. I had one bad restart where I was not thinking (yes I know I'm stupid for doing this, I'm a rather impatient person and after a long day of three hard exams, week of playing with the OS and restarting 5 bazillion times I was rather tired of waiting especially as it was on windows update 3 out of 186) and pulled an unused Sata 3.0 connector out of the motherboad as it was shutting down. I made sure to not to touch any metal or the motherboard itself and ground myself out, but it froze anyway and I manually reset it.
After the reset the machine didn't show any problems other than it was running slow. When I checked the computer properties it showed 6 gbs installed, but 1.49 gbs usable (the two stock HP sticks are split between a 2gb stick and a 4gb stick). The bios also saw all 6gbs installed.
Components (all stock):
Mobo: aahd2-hy
Ram: Elpida 1333 mhz
What I've tried so far:
-Unchecking/checking maximum memory in msconfig
-Windows memory diagnostic
-Switching sticks around in motherboard (There are two slots, when reversed the computer front leds (normally white) turn yellow and the onboard speaker beeps very loudly 5 times, pauses, and repeats.)
-Updating bios, unfortunately HP being the garbage company that it is, hasn't released a bios update since they released the computer
-Changing page file size in advanced tab under computer properties
-Factory reset again
-Installed Windows 7 Ultimate
None of these worked, the computer properties still read 6gb installed, 1.49gb available
Moving RAM around:
-Booting on just the 2gb stick in its respective slot worked, it saw the 2gbs and used 1.5
-Booting on just the 4gb stick in its respective slot did not work, you can hear the harddrive running, but nothing came up on screen, no bios, no display, nothing
-Booting on no sticks had the same result as just the 4gb stick
-I re-installed the old HP RAM into my custom rig, it saw, ran and used all the RAM available in the sticks
-Booting the old HP with my new ripjaws, using one stick in either port used all the ram, as well as booting in both slots, used all 8gbs (2*4gb)
-Booting on one ripjaws stick (in the 2gb stick's slot) and the 4gb HP stick, saw all 8gbs, but only used 4gbs
I can usually find answers without too much trouble, but this is a huge headache for me. Any help is much appreciated.
Over the past few years I've slowly upgraded an old HP computer from stock to a completely separate computer. Last week I got the final piece, new RAM and decided to take all the parts from the old computer and put them back together to reform the stock computer. I had reset the HDD to factory settings as all the components were the default from factory. I had one bad restart where I was not thinking (yes I know I'm stupid for doing this, I'm a rather impatient person and after a long day of three hard exams, week of playing with the OS and restarting 5 bazillion times I was rather tired of waiting especially as it was on windows update 3 out of 186) and pulled an unused Sata 3.0 connector out of the motherboad as it was shutting down. I made sure to not to touch any metal or the motherboard itself and ground myself out, but it froze anyway and I manually reset it.
After the reset the machine didn't show any problems other than it was running slow. When I checked the computer properties it showed 6 gbs installed, but 1.49 gbs usable (the two stock HP sticks are split between a 2gb stick and a 4gb stick). The bios also saw all 6gbs installed.
Components (all stock):
Mobo: aahd2-hy
Ram: Elpida 1333 mhz
What I've tried so far:
-Unchecking/checking maximum memory in msconfig
-Windows memory diagnostic
-Switching sticks around in motherboard (There are two slots, when reversed the computer front leds (normally white) turn yellow and the onboard speaker beeps very loudly 5 times, pauses, and repeats.)
-Updating bios, unfortunately HP being the garbage company that it is, hasn't released a bios update since they released the computer
-Changing page file size in advanced tab under computer properties
-Factory reset again
-Installed Windows 7 Ultimate
None of these worked, the computer properties still read 6gb installed, 1.49gb available
Moving RAM around:
-Booting on just the 2gb stick in its respective slot worked, it saw the 2gbs and used 1.5
-Booting on just the 4gb stick in its respective slot did not work, you can hear the harddrive running, but nothing came up on screen, no bios, no display, nothing
-Booting on no sticks had the same result as just the 4gb stick
-I re-installed the old HP RAM into my custom rig, it saw, ran and used all the RAM available in the sticks
-Booting the old HP with my new ripjaws, using one stick in either port used all the ram, as well as booting in both slots, used all 8gbs (2*4gb)
-Booting on one ripjaws stick (in the 2gb stick's slot) and the 4gb HP stick, saw all 8gbs, but only used 4gbs
I can usually find answers without too much trouble, but this is a huge headache for me. Any help is much appreciated.
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