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My condolences. I do not know about being stuffed, though. You simply cannot use all 4GB. If possible, pull a stick of RAM out and use it elsewhere or sell it on CraigsList. You are better served to use Windows 7 32-bit.
I am rather confused - you successfully installed 64-bit on this machine?
Back in 3 hours.
Have the same issue (totally different setup) with clean Win7 64bit install. Re-seated the CPU (as per another forum) and "recovered" the full 4GB, but a week later & I'm back at 1.99 usable RAM.
MSI mobo Core i5 4GB Total DDR3 1333 RAM - XFX 9600 GT display card (desktop PC).
Followed all steps suggested in this threat but all checks out fine.
Hello;
I am also having the exact same issue. I built my PC last week & installed Windows 7 on my PC a few days ago. All Microsoft Updates were installed. I had the full 6GB of RAM available following the OS install. All drivers were installed and the RAM usage was 6GB. After around 3 days, I have looked at the properties of the computer again & now the status of RAM is 6GB (2GB usable). I checked every day for the past three days and it was set to 6GB. Only this evening when I checked, it was set to 2GB usable.
I have Windows 7 64BIT installed on the PC. My HD setup contains two (2) 500MB Sata HD's with a RAID1 configuration. My PC also contains a 1GB PCI-E Video card. If it were hardware using 4GB of the system memory, as soon as the PC was built & all drivers were installed, the RAM usage would have specified 2GB usable following the installation, not three days later. I have a feeling, in which I could be wrong, that this is yet again, another Microsoft bug that Microsoft will have to answer for...
Hi;
Funny thing is since yesterday, it has gone back to 6GB installed RAM, therefore this would not be a BIOS issue. I will keep everyone posted & let you know if it does drop down again.
Had the same issue: MB: Asus P7P55D-ELX
8GB(4x2GB)installed, Bios and Win7_64 shows only 4GB, 4GB hardware reserved
It was a memory, timing, Bios setting problem:
Finally got it to work with 8GB:
What I did:
Power off
Clear CMOS: Short CLRT, short pin2,3:, (Not just reload defaults in BIOS), and back to Normal: short Pin1,2
Press MemOK (An ASUS MB feature)
Power on
Delete
Now BIOS/Main/System Info: Usable Size: 8191MB (and Win7_64 reports 8GB)
Note: unless Bios shows correct size, Win wont see it.(even though CPU-Z will report it)