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Deadshot_0826
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Hi! I have a Hero VII mobo, a 4790k, and 16 gigs of G.skill Ripjaws DDR3 ram(4x4 kit) but only 4 gigs is usable? I have Gone through my bios and everything is correct. Also in mscoinfig everything is correct to. I am so confuggled.

Are you perhaps using a 32bit version of Windows?

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Maybe try just 8 GB installed and see what happens

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I just recently did that, what do I do differently to make it 64-bit?

You need to install the 64-bit version rather than the 32-bit version. You cannot 'do it differently', they are different versions. What are you installing windows from, disc/usb/etc?

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and a disk

Well that disk is useless to you because 32 bit windows can only make use of 4Gb of RAM. To install 64bit windows, you will either need to buy a new disc or see if you're able to download the installation files from somewhere to either burn to a disc or put on a USB.

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Windows 7 or Windows 8? Both come with 32 and 64bit disks.

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I have another disk, I just grabbed the wrong one... I will use this for my laptop :)(I hope nobody saw the original mistake I made)

It's an easy mistake, probably happens quite often.

I even did it once back in the XP days, I got PRO XP64 and forgot to use the correct disk.

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