Windows 7 64bit sees no memory

Hey guys i just built myself out a new toy

GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 3.06GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor

CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V

2 x 1tb WD Hard drives

EVGA GeForce GTX 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDTV Graphics card

8gb of OCZ Platinum 240 pin ddr3

Sumsung Combo Superdrive with lightscribe

APEVIA X-JUPITER G Computer Case

Audigy soundblaster

And well i decided to go ahead and put windows 7 64bit on there to give it try anywho so im liking windows 7 untill i try to play gears of war and it tells me there is not enough virtual memory installed, so i go over to my computer and then to properties and to my surprise where it says ram there is nothing its just blank so im very confused if u could help me out that would be great thanx S.B

mechanicforme said:

Hey guys i just built myself out a new toy

GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 3.06GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor

CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V

2 x 1tb WD Hard drives

EVGA GeForce GTX 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDTV Graphics card

8gb of OCZ Platinum 240 pin ddr3

Sumsung Combo Superdrive with lightscribe

APEVIA X-JUPITER G Computer Case

Audigy soundblaster

And well i decided to go ahead and put windows 7 64bit on there to give it try anywho so im liking windows 7 untill i try to play gears of war and it tells me there is not enough virtual memory installed, so i go over to my computer and then to properties and to my surprise where it says ram there is nothing its just blank so im very confused if u could help me out that would be great thanx S.B

Are you running the beta build or the RC build? Or some other build? Please run the following command at a cmd prompt and post the output here.

REG.exe QUERY "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v BuildLabEx

I don't think your computer is up to snuff for windows 7, sorry.


=P

copernicus said:

I don't think your computer is up to snuff for windows 7, sorry.


=P

Ok im running the RC Build, i found out it detects the memory when i go to check it out in thetask manager so im thinking its some kinda glitch idk, as far as the post above me what tha hell man if 1600 bux of hardware isent enough for freakin windows 7, F it im going back to Ubuntu hahaha

Funny enough, I just installed a 64 bit on a gigbabyte mother board a few hours ago and it doesn't see the memory either. lol

wow seriously!! lol thats weird cuz it sees it in task manager, but when i try to play games i get warnings that i dont have enough memory and the games play fine anyway hmm weird lol

See these two threads (with pix), same problem with ram NOT "showing" under system properties, but Windows 7 is seeing the correct ram every place else (Task Manager My Computer etc):

What on earth, bet you never seen anything like this!

System properties

This was a bug in the RC build. It is fixed in more recent builds, and you will be able to see that it is fixed when the final product is released.

The bug is caused by the fact that your system's BIOS does not describe installed memory to Windows as expected. A system BIOS update would correct this problem if your motherboard manufacturer chose to release one. As you might imagine, it's not suprising that two people with the same brand motherboard are reporting this problem.