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Cmill0422   09-27-2009 at 07:07:17 PM

i currenly have a p6t delux mobo with a i7 920 and 6 gigs of gskill (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231225&cm_re=g.skill-_-20-231-225-_-Product) ram. my comp is only showing 2gigs being picked up but cpuz shows all 6. bios shows only 2 and my comp only shows 2. the question is, do i need to send back my ram or is it an eazy fix. the cpuz that shows 6 gigs is what is making me wounder what the heck is going on

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mindless728   09-27-2009 at 07:13:06 PM

have you looked in the advanced section of the boot tab in msconfig?

that max memory could be checked and at 2048 (2GB)

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PCuser64   09-27-2009 at 07:17:46 PM

If the bios is showing only 2gb, then maybe your motherboard is not capable of recognizing more than 2gb of ram. What is your motherboard?

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Cmill0422   09-27-2009 at 07:23:54 PM

max memory in msconfig is not checked. and i have an asus p6t deluxe. its capable of 24 gigs of ram. http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=vXixf82co6Q5v0BZ

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Shadow703793   09-27-2009 at 10:04:16 PM

This is interesting. There was a similar problem with a ASRock,etc boards using X58.

 


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Cmill0422   09-27-2009 at 11:43:03 PM

lol well that doesnt help me. do you think its a ram or mobo problem?

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Shadow703793   09-28-2009 at 01:13:33 AM

^Try Memtest86+. Also, the RAM is installed in the correct sockets?

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Cmill0422   09-29-2009 at 01:37:22 AM

the ram is installed correcty. ran memtest. it says at the top left 2gigs or it said 2039MB of ram but at the bottom of the screen it showed all 3 sticks (6 gigs of ram) passed 100%. so idk what the hell is going on. :(

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sminlal   09-29-2009 at 03:31:57 AM

Cmill0422 wrote :

the ram is installed correcty.

So that means the DIMM slot closest to the CPU is empty, right?

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nocheese   09-29-2009 at 02:48:10 PM

Check in your BIOS for "OS Install Mode" or something similar. That feature limits the amount of RAM available during OS installation as some OSs can't handle more RAM until after certain updates are applied.

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Silver Motherboards badge mongox   09-30-2009 at 07:48:13 AM

Check the discussion in this thread, the procedures there should all be tried.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] alf-memory

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rand_79   09-30-2009 at 08:03:32 AM

you could try "load optimized defaults" in bios.. about the only thing coming to mind right now.

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