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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, 02:35 PM
Completely irrelevant to the problem, you do not need SP1 for 8GB of ram.

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Re: Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4
Posted: 01-14-2009, 12:30 AM

Well, I have a Vista Ultimate 32 bit, it only shows 2.98G of RAM prio
to my updates to SP1. After SP1 it now shows 4.0G or RAM..

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Re: Vista 64 doesn't see 8 gigs of ram. Just 4
Posted: 01-14-2009, 02:27 AM
That problem doesn't apply to the 64-bit version.

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> Well, I have a Vista Ultimate 32 bit, it only shows 2.98G of RAM prior
> to my updates to SP1. After SP1 it now shows 4.0G or RAM...
>
> David B.;938341 Wrote:
>> Completely irrelevant to the problem, you do not need SP1 for 8GB of
>> ram.
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>> "entzoe" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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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: 01-14-2009, 02:39 AM
MS made the change in SP1 to show all the memory installed instead of how
much is available to applications other then those that use hardware with
their own installed memory such as graphics cards and the buffer space
required to use them.
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> Well, I have a Vista Ultimate 32 bit, it only shows 2.98G of RAM prior
> to my updates to SP1. After SP1 it now shows 4.0G or RAM...
>
> David B.;938341 Wrote:
>> Completely irrelevant to the problem, you do not need SP1 for 8GB of
>> ram.
>>
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>> "entzoe" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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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, 11:42 AM
Hi,

How much installed memory does the system BIOS report?

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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, 04:27 PM
Not all MOBOs support 8GB of memory. Check your MOBO and BIOS
documentation
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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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