Windows 7 64bit sees no memory

[mechanicforme]

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

 

[brucemoose2]

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

 

[copernicus]

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


=P

 

[mechanicforme]

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

 

[copernicus]

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

 

[mechanicforme]

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

 

[ben07]

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):

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/9939-what-earth-bet-you-never-seen-anything-like.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/9714-system-properties.html

 

[brucemoose2]

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.

 

[Orbital Shark]

You may want to increase you Virtual Memory (System Properties->Advanced system settings), under Performance click 'Settings' then click the 'Advanced' tab and under Virtual Memory click 'Change'. You would want to set it to about 1.5x your phisical RAM, so if you have 8GB then you need to set it you Virtual Memory to 12GB.

Hope this helps




Jeff

 

[Orbital Shark]

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.

Don't you mean a bug in the BETA builds? Aside from build 7127, RC is the latest build.

 

[brucemoose2]

Don't you mean a bug in the BETA builds? Aside from build 7127, RC is the latest build.

No, I mean what I said. This was a bug in the RC build and it is fixed in more recent builds. You are correct that the RC is the latest publicly available build.

 

[Orbital Shark]

I see what you're saying. They would be the Pre-RC builds.

 

[brucemoose2]

I see what you're saying. They would be the Pre-RC builds.

No, I'm talking about post-RC builds when I say that this is fixed. Post-RC builds do not have this problem and the RC build does have this problem.

Post-RC builds are not publicly available at this time, but once you are able to get one, you will see that this issue is resolved. Don't worry!

 

[ben07]

I'm happy to report that W7 (7127 x64) is finally displaying my ram under System Properties.

To my surprise, upgrading to 7127 from 7100 (instead of doing a fresh install, as I normally do) my C drive has gone down a bit by 1.5GB!

W7 7100 x64 19.9GB free of 37.2GB
W7 7127 x64 21.4GB free of 37.2GB