My computer only reads 8GB out of 16GB ram

Jasonsan

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Before reading this the solution was that I had accidently bought 2 x 4GB sticks (the description said 8GB so assumed they were 8GB each)

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Hi all,

I had built a new PC almost a year ago, and have tried solving this problem before however with no luck.

Here is my motherboard:
Asus Z97-PRO GAMER Socket 1150 VGA DVI HDMI 8-Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard

Ram:
2 x HyperX Fury 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM Memory

So I have gone into the bios and found that it said 2 x 8GB sticks were installed, however with windows 8 It only reads 8GB in total. I am not an expert with BIOS settings so I am not sure whether I need to do something there, or if it's a Microsoft problem.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, I will try and upload images of the BIOS to help with the problem.
 

Jasonsan

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Hey yeah it comes up in the BIOS, I will post some images tomorrow of the BIOS.
 

Jasonsan

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damn it yeah I just checked the BIOS again and it says the sticks are 4gb (sigh) well thanks anyway for the help I thought they were too cheap to be true
 

Jasonsan

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I will delete this thread so people don't waste their time seeing that it was a human error, thanks to everyone by the way for helping! how do I delete thread's as I can't seem to find a delete option
 

PC-4LIFE

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You don't have to delete it. Even if it was an easy solution it may help someone else.

But no, I don't know how to delete threads lol.