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 Post subject: Windows 7 RAM Problem
PostPosted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:10 am 
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Hey, I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit and I have 6GB of Kingston HyperX RAM on my motherboard which is a ASUS P6T SE which can have 24GB of RAM, but Windows 7 is only saying there is 4GB of RAM, but when I run CPUZ is says I have 6GB. Anyone know what might be wrong?

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Check in your bios.

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Yes, there may be a setting in the Bios to enable support for more RAM - check your motherboard manual.
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Are you sure you installed the 64-bit version of Win 7? A friend of mine just did the simple mistake of installing the x86 and not the x64 version (x86 being 32-bit) and that would explain why Windows can only see 4GB instead of 6GB.
Shouldn't be a BIOS setting problem, not on an X58 board anyhow and as long as the memory is discovered by the BIOS (which CPU-Z suggests) then it's a problem related to Windows.

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Gordon Laing
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Yep, that occurred to me too - are you sure you've installed the 64-bit version? The 32-bit one will only see 4GB. Have a look at your system properties...
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It's more than likely he installed x64. If he had installed x86 he would probably see:

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I installed Windows 7 X64 on my Core 2 Box and it was saying 2GB installed, but theres 4. Very strange not figured out whats up with it yet.

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