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Windows 7 64bit cutting ram in half
Hello,
I have been dealing with this issue for a while now. I installed 8gb of ram, and was running Ubuntu all was fine and dandy, but for work i need windows for most things, so i did a nice fresh install on another hard drive. I was doing some work one day when i saw windows say "8gb install (3.99gb usable)" Now the installation is legit and 64 bit. I started doing research, found people having this issue but most where solved by bent cpu pin or settings in bios. Now my ram is 4 sticks, and two different brands/speed. The timings are all the same 9 - 9 - 9 - 24 , the Corsair set was 1600 @ 1.65v and the Patriot was 1333 @ 1.5V. I messed with all the settings and resets until I was blue in the face, but nothing fixed the problem. So I just lived with it, until today when i pulled out the corsair sticks or ram for another project. Now I booted up windows and saw "4gb installed (1.99gb usable)" . Has anyone else ever had this issue ????? I have been working on and building computers all my life and never have encountered this. I have a dedicated graphics card, its some cheap GT 520. Im just really confused. Thanks !