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Ram halved by windows
hi,
have been having trouble with my ram for past couple of months, once every couple of days or weeks I will have 8gb usable but the majority of the time it only gives me 3.98 of 8gb which can happen without me changing any settings.
So far I have run windows memory diagnostic, memtest x86 with no errors, updated my bios to the most current and unchecked the max ram box in msconfig and made changes permenent, I'm starting to think that the socket could be intermittently faulty but that wouldn't make sense as every boot the ram is detected as 8gb but only reads 4096, I have also had a look at the pins on the motherboard and they look straight and I have not messed any installs up. Im fairly stuck so any help would be appreciated. I will detail the full spec of the system below.
MB: Asus F1A55-M LE
CPU: ATHLON X4 651K
RAM: 8GB (4GBx2) 1333MHZ DDR3
GPU: GT440 (GAINWARD 1GB GDDR5)
HDD: SEAGATE BARRACUDA 7200.2
BIOS VERSION: 1503
OS: WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE X64
souncard: sounblaster x-fi xtreme audio.
Doubt you need to know the soundcard but hopefully the info I've given helps.
thanks in advance