Memory Confused

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  1. Kovoet

    Kovoet What's a Dremel?

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    Slightly confused here. Its the first I have gone beyond XP and have installed Window's 7 and have installed 6GB Gskill ram but when I go itno system within the control panel it says I only have 2ram
     
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  2. Picarro

    Picarro What's a Dremel?

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    Are you running a 32 or 64 bit OS?
     
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  3. PureSilver

    PureSilver E-tailer Tailor

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    Do you have your RAM in the right slots? If this is your first foray into triple-channel memory, check that they're all in slots that are the same colour on the P6TD; you also have to start with a specific colour. (I've got a V1 and they're in the orange slots, IIRC.) Otherwise, yeah - what version of 7 are you running?
     
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  4. Kovoet

    Kovoet What's a Dremel?

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    Running 64bit and they're in the right slots
     
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  5. atanum141

    atanum141 I fapped to your post!

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    What does it show in the BIOS?
     
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  6. Kovoet

    Kovoet What's a Dremel?

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    4 gig
     
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  7. MrGumby

    MrGumby CPC 464 User

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    Im not sure but do you have to enable memory remap in your bios?
     
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  8. Zero_UK

    Zero_UK What's a Dremel?

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    Odd, have you got all the windows 7 updates? by the way, typo in your signature specs. "HIS 5879 GFX card"
     
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  9. mrbungle

    mrbungle Undercooked chicken giver

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  10. Big Elf

    Big Elf Oh no! Not another f----ing elf!

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    Load the XMP Profile, does that have any effect? I have the same motherboard and in experimenting I found that it 'lost' a stick if I tightened the timings too much or had insufficient QPI voltage (I have to run a QPI of 1.53125v to get mine to run at 2000MHz).

    Also try running MemTest86.
     
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