Hey guys,
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I originally had 8gb of DDR3 when I initially built my computer, however recently I ordered another 8gb of the exact same kind of RAM. When I installed all 4x4gb and went to boot the system it only showed 8gb in the bios and said it was in dual channel mode, so I began to think the RAM had come DOA. So I removed the new ram and then moved my original RAM into the other slots to see if the slots were broken on my motherboard, well they weren't. I then removed the original RAM and put just the new 8GB in the system and it showed up and ran totally fine. This is where I began to get a bit confused, because none of the motherboard slots were broken and both sets of RAM worked fine alone. So my next concern was that they were incompatible which is highly unlikely to occur in the first place, not to mention they are the exact same model! So I took one stick of the original RAM and one stick of the new RAM and tried it out, once again the system booted and ran fine, showing all 8gb of RAM. Now I'm extremely lost, because the only time it doesn't work is when all 4 sticks are in the system, in BIOS it says 2 of the slots are empty. What could be going on and is there anyway to fix this? I'd like to hope I didn't just waste $54!
Thanks