RAM - System says 4GB, but only 2GB usable?

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JDMfanatic

Discussion Starter · Nov 29, 2009

I've looked around, but everyone having this problem is on 32bit, I'm on 64bit.

I shouldn't have any problems right? Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, I have 4GB of RAM installed, shows that in the bios, shows that in cpuz, shows that in my system control panel, but then it says only 2GB of that is usable. What's wrong with it? How can I fix it?

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Mikecdm

· #2 · Nov 29, 2009

That happened to me the other day. I first noticed when trying to stress with LinX. It showed only 2gb when I had 4gb. Then windows showed 2gb, but everything else shows 4gb. Eventually after a bunch of reboots it somehow started showing up as 4. I don't even know what I did to fix it.

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mrfajita

· #3 · Nov 29, 2009

Go into your bios and enable Memory Remap.

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Riskitall84

· #4 · Nov 29, 2009

Try MSConfig - Boot - Advanced

Is the max memory box ticked?

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JDMfanatic

Discussion Starter · #5 · Nov 29, 2009

max memory box is not ticked...
ill try the memory remap.

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JDMfanatic

Discussion Starter · #6 · Nov 30, 2009

bump.. i actually can't find the memory remapping option.. and also my bios actually only says 2gb of ram now, should i just play musical chairs with the ram?

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DuckieHo

· #7 · Nov 30, 2009

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Originally Posted by JDMfanatic

bump.. i actually can't find the memory remapping option.. and also my bios actually only says 2gb of ram now, should i just play musical chairs with the ram?

Memory voltage set correctly?

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JDMfanatic

Discussion Starter · #8 · Nov 30, 2009

yeah it's set at 1.65v like its supposed to
all i did was reseat the memory and it's fine now actually

thanks

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