system not detecting all of the ram

cool-dude5

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May 14, 2018
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Hi Guys, I had a laptop with a single 4gb stick of ram and i had a 2gb stick so i added it but the system doesnt detect it. I opened dxdiag and resource monitor and it shows i got only 4096mb of ram while i used speccy and it shows them as 6gb so what should i do to make the system detect the 6gb?
 


I was mentioning it because I seem to recall that the resource monitor in Windows 7 only showed usable RAM ... maybe not, it's been a while.

The other possibility is that your 2GB stick has different timings or voltages and therefore BIOS will not allow it to be used. I don't recall if speccy shows SPD information. Does your BIOS allow you to manually set memory timings and or voltages?