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Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4

Posted: 01-13-2009, 04:30 AM
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Motherboard combo EVGA nforce 780i SLl w/ Intel quadcore 2 Q6700 2.66gh
Case= Apevia MX-ALIEN-BK/50
Hard drive=Western Digital Caviar Greenpower 500gb 7200, 16mb sata-30
oem x 2 [image
http://asr.smakugames.com/e107_image...ult/smile.png]
Power supply= UltraX3 ULT40064 1000 watt w/memory sticks! Corsair TWIN
4096mb pc6400 ddr2 x
Vid Card=BFG Geforce GTX 280 video card 1gb, gddr3, PCIe 2.0x16. ect
ec
CPU fan= Masscool 8WA74

What do I need to do
done the mother board update to 64 bit. no help

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Dominic Payer
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Re: Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4
Posted: 01-13-2009, 07:49 AM
Find and enable the "Memory hole" options in the BIOS.


"Zombie" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Motherboard combo EVGA nforce 780i SLl w/ Intel quadcore 2 Q6700 2.66ghz
> Case= Apevia MX-ALIEN-BK/500
> Hard drive=Western Digital Caviar Greenpower 500gb 7200, 16mb sata-300
> oem x 2 [image:
> http://asr.smakugames.com/e107_image...ult/smile.png]
> Power supply= UltraX3 ULT40064 1000 watt w/memory sticks! Corsair TWINX
> 4096mb pc6400 ddr2 x 4
> Vid Card=BFG Geforce GTX 280 video card 1gb, gddr3, PCIe 2.0x16. ect,
> ect
> CPU fan= Masscool 8WA741
>
> What do I need to do?
> done the mother board update to 64 bit. no help.
>
>
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Re: Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4
Posted: 01-13-2009, 08:47 AM

Have you tried updating Vista with SP1

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Re: Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4
Posted: 01-13-2009, 10:30 AM

try looking for a 'memory rempa' or similar feature in your motherboar
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Re: Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4
Posted: 01-13-2009, 11:42 AM
Hi,

How much installed memory does the system BIOS report?

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"Zombie" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Motherboard combo EVGA nforce 780i SLl w/ Intel quadcore 2 Q6700 2.66ghz
> Case= Apevia MX-ALIEN-BK/500
> Hard drive=Western Digital Caviar Greenpower 500gb 7200, 16mb sata-300
> oem x 2 [image:
> http://asr.smakugames.com/e107_image...ult/smile.png]
> Power supply= UltraX3 ULT40064 1000 watt w/memory sticks! Corsair TWINX
> 4096mb pc6400 ddr2 x 4
> Vid Card=BFG Geforce GTX 280 video card 1gb, gddr3, PCIe 2.0x16. ect,
> ect
> CPU fan= Masscool 8WA741
>
> What do I need to do?
> done the mother board update to 64 bit. no help.
>
>
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David B.
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Re: Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4
Posted: 01-13-2009, 02:35 PM
Completely irrelevant to the problem, you do not need SP1 for 8GB of ram.

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> Have you tried updating Vista with SP1?
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Re: Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4
Posted: 01-13-2009, 04:24 PM

Zombie wrote:
> What do I need to do?
Have you by any chance a max memory setting defined in msconfig?
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Curious
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Re: Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4
Posted: 01-13-2009, 04:27 PM
Not all MOBOs support 8GB of memory. Check your MOBO and BIOS
documentation
"Zombie" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Motherboard combo EVGA nforce 780i SLl w/ Intel quadcore 2 Q6700 2.66ghz
> Case= Apevia MX-ALIEN-BK/500
> Hard drive=Western Digital Caviar Greenpower 500gb 7200, 16mb sata-300
> oem x 2 [image:
> http://asr.smakugames.com/e107_image...ult/smile.png]
> Power supply= UltraX3 ULT40064 1000 watt w/memory sticks! Corsair TWINX
> 4096mb pc6400 ddr2 x 4
> Vid Card=BFG Geforce GTX 280 video card 1gb, gddr3, PCIe 2.0x16. ect,
> ect
> CPU fan= Masscool 8WA741
>
> What do I need to do?
> done the mother board update to 64 bit. no help.
>
>
> --
> Zombie
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Re: Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4
Posted: 01-13-2009, 09:13 PM
Go into BIOS, change the "Memory hole remap" setting, save and exit BIOS.
Repeat and change the same setting back to the original one.



"Zombie" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Motherboard combo EVGA nforce 780i SLl w/ Intel quadcore 2 Q6700 2.66ghz
> Case= Apevia MX-ALIEN-BK/500
> Hard drive=Western Digital Caviar Greenpower 500gb 7200, 16mb sata-300
> oem x 2 [image:
> http://asr.smakugames.com/e107_image...ult/smile.png]
> Power supply= UltraX3 ULT40064 1000 watt w/memory sticks! Corsair TWINX
> 4096mb pc6400 ddr2 x 4
> Vid Card=BFG Geforce GTX 280 video card 1gb, gddr3, PCIe 2.0x16. ect,
> ect
> CPU fan= Masscool 8WA741
>
> What do I need to do?
> done the mother board update to 64 bit. no help.
>
>
> --
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Peter Foldes
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Re: Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4
Posted: 01-13-2009, 09:19 PM
> Motherboard combo EVGA nforce 780i SLl w/ Intel quadcore 2 Q6700 2.66ghz


From what you posted about your MOBO it does not support higher than 4 Gigs (look it
up) That is the reason that you cannot read higher than 4 gigs. You need to Upgrade
to a Mobo that will support high RAM such as for 64bit systems or Server environment
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> Motherboard combo EVGA nforce 780i SLl w/ Intel quadcore 2 Q6700 2.66ghz
> Case= Apevia MX-ALIEN-BK/500
> Hard drive=Western Digital Caviar Greenpower 500gb 7200, 16mb sata-300
> oem x 2 [image:
> http://asr.smakugames.com/e107_image...ult/smile.png]
> Power supply= UltraX3 ULT40064 1000 watt w/memory sticks! Corsair TWINX
> 4096mb pc6400 ddr2 x 4
> Vid Card=BFG Geforce GTX 280 video card 1gb, gddr3, PCIe 2.0x16. ect,
> ect
> CPU fan= Masscool 8WA741
>
> What do I need to do?
> done the mother board update to 64 bit. no help.
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