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My PC won't boot up correctly and has just lost half its memory!!!
Well, a third anyway.
Having had a few blue screens recently I noticed today the PC was taking longer to boot up - the fan would come on for a few seconds, then go off. It would have a second and maybe third attempt - before the "beep", the BIOS splash screen and the Windows opening logo.
I noticed that a program that requires a lot of memory wasn't working so I looked under System. To my horror I found the PC reporting it only had 16GB installed. There should be 24GB - 6 lots of 4GB which is the maximum the motherboard can take.
I ran the onboard Windows 7 memory diagnostic and it reported that the memory was working fine. But it's only reporting 16GB.
So it seems my PC has "lost" 8GB of RAM. I suppose the next check is take the case apart and check that the RAM's correctly seated. But if it is, I'm stumped for what to do next - if 8GB is missing does that mean two 4GB chips are down and if so how do I go about isolating and identifying which two have gone AWOL?
I run 64 bit Win 7 Professional with an i7 970 processor and an ASUS® P6X58D-E motherboard.
Thanks for any advice.