8GB (1.96GB Usable)

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Hi guys,

 

Yesterday this guy came over and gave me a single 4GB stick for free, my PC was running perfect at the time with 6GB (2x2 and 2x1) but I thought why not take out those 2x1 and put in 1x4 so I can have a total of 8GB? Well I did and this is the result:

 

Installed a total of 8GB RAM (2x2GB and 1x4GB), but when I look in my BIOS it recognizes only 2GB... And when I boot up Windows (W10 B9879) it says 'Installed memory (RAM): 8GB (1.96GB Usable)'

 

I've done the 'msconfig method' and tried to find the 'memory remapping feature', but couldn't find it.

 

Here's a screenshot of my resmon (warning! Big Picture!):

 

 

I hope someone can help me... and explain to me why now only 2GB is usable and not 4...

 

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Motherboard: Some Foxxcon Skywalker motherboard (comes from a Dell Inspirion 580)

Processor: Intel Core i5 750

Graphics Card: GeForce GTX260

[phillrulz]

try ram map have a look around see what it says is using it all 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx

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try ram map have a look around see what it says is using it all 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx

 

Does this help you?

 

(again.. a big picture)

[UnderwearThief]

Hi guys,

 

Yesterday this guy came over and gave me a single 4GB stick for free, my PC was running perfect at the time with 6GB (2x2 and 2x1) but I thought why not take out those 2x1 and put in 1x4 so I can have a total of 8GB? Well I did and this is the result:

 

Installed a total of 8GB RAM (2x2GB and 1x4GB), but when I look in my BIOS it recognizes only 2GB... And when I boot up Windows (W10 B9879) it says 'Installed memory (RAM): 8GB (1.96GB Usable)'

 

I've done the 'msconfig method' and tried to find the 'memory remapping feature', but couldn't find it.

 

Here's a screenshot of my resmon (warning! Big Picture!):

 

I hope someone can help me... and explain to me why now only 2GB is usable and not 4...

 

- Question

 

Motherboard: Some Foxxcon Skywalker motherboard (comes from a Dell Inspirion 580)

Processor: Intel Core i5 750

Graphics Card: GeForce GTX260

It says that 6GB is hardware reserved...what does that mean?

EDIT: Does all the RAM have the same CAS timing? You can use CPU-Z if you don't know. Timimgs must match on RAM for them to work together. Also, try placing the 4GB stick in the other empty DIMM slot

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It says that 6GB is hardware reserved...what does that mean?

EDIT: Does all the RAM have the same CAS timing? You can use CPU-Z if you don't know. Timimgs must match on RAM for them to work together. Also, try placing the 4GB stick in the other empty DIMM slot

 

Will check the latency and change slots.

 

BRB

[UnderwearThief]

Will check the latency and change slots.

 

BRB

One final idea from me, it could be a bad RAM stick or a bad DIMM slot. It might be wise to boot using 1 stick and switch DIMM slots. If it fails booting, then that DIMM slot is bad

[phillrulz]

Does this help you?

 

(again.. a big picture)

try this

 

show that window

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Well...

 

I now got my PC back to normal            (2x2 and 2x1, 6GB Total) and I found out the dim had an error (checked it with memtest86+).

 

That dim is going on my 'defect components shelf'.

 

Thanks for all the help!

 

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