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RAM issues help please (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hey all. I've tried different ram, a different windows version, I've messed around in bios and updated it as well. How can i get my pc to register the rest of my ram??

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It is detecting your ram with what I can tell from the screenshot. What program is that anyways? But it a large portion is being used. I believe windows itself uses aroung 4gigs and you might just have programs in the background using the rest, even a web browser could use a decent chunk

What does task manager show?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That looks like a snippet the system properties menu in Windows. It's detecting all of the RAM but it isn't that only 7.92GB is free -- rather only 7.92GB is capable of being addressed, due to something going wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

What other hardware do you have installed in your system?

Can you take a screenshot of the Memory tab of Resource Manager?

It looks like the BIOS is reserving the memory for something. Reserving memory is pretty normal, but 8 GB isn't. Have you tried resetting your bios to default settings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you reseated the CPU and tried different RAM already it could be you have a defective motherboard. I read some other threads where that was the case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I had this issue once on a PC a few years ago. I ended up having to slightly over volt the RAM in the bios. After doing that I no longer had any issues. By slightly I mean I upped it by the smallest increment once or twice.

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