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Computer using 8 of 16 gig of ram

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i have 16 gb of ram. and today when i started it up it only uses 8gb of the ram. any ideas to why?

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You mean when you first booted it? It's not supposed to even use 8GB of RAM, unless you have a lot of programs running in the background.

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i mean that is not even displaying that 16 gb of ram exists..

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A dead stick maybe?

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The DIMM slot for the other stick may not be working.

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i mean that is not even displaying that 16 gb of ram exists..

What operating system? One of them does not support more than 8 *IIRC*.

What motherboard? Some do not support more than 8 GB of RAM.

If it was seeing it all before, and now it does not, the stick/slot might have died.

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i figured it out.. 2 of the ram sticks were not able to cope with the overclocking i had done. i went down to 1600 and everything works fine now.
thanks for your input

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the overclock i had diled in had worked just fine for 6 months. but apperantly it was to mutch in the long run

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maybe something along the lines of OS limitations.
I heard older and 32 bit versions of windows limit the cap.
What does the BIOS say?

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