Possible bad stick of ram?

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Sovick

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I am currently rattling my brain to figure out why I only have 3.2 gb or ram usable out of 8. My current ram that i have in my computer is:

2x4gb Kingston HyperX FURY 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM

I powred down my computer and took one out and rebooted it, no problems except the system info said there was 4gb available. So i then powered down again and tried my other stick and i get nothing on my screen, all black. Computer is on, i see my fan running ect...
Is there a way to run a diagnostics check on it or something of that sort to see if it is indeed broken? Please let me know, i really dont want to buy another stick.
 
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Tradesman1
Shut down, reset the CMOS and reseat both sticks firmly in the correct slots, the Fury are PnP so they sould simply auto configure themselves
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Im sorry but could you eplain that a little more Barney style (not very good on the technical terms). I just updated and downloaded all of MSI's bios and driver through their website, if that what i would be resetting?
 
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Shut down, unplug power cable, reset the CMOS (there's a jumper you can use (see manual)) or can simply remove the mobo's battery (silver, about the size of a nickle), leave it out for a minute or two then put back in the way it was. Then reinstall DRAM, firmly, so side clips come up and lock themselves in
 
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