Solved 8GB shows as 4GB with p5n32-e mobo / x64

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tomkat2006

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OK so I'm reading about this on the 'net earlier. Ive had8GB in my machine for over a year, all is fine, runs no probs. But I recently installed Everest and noticed that it reported my 8GB being 4096 of physical RAM. Opening task manager confirms this also, yet the BIOS, and the Vista welcome screen says 8GB :confused:

I read that the nforcei 680 (?) chipset doesnt use more than 4GB, yet other articles state you need to have MIMO in operation.

Well, I have a quadcore QX6850 processor which supports 64bit computing, IM running Vista Ultimate X64 and have the ASUS P5n32-e Sli motherboard with a 9800 G2 SLI card. So which is true? Do I need to remap the memory? If so how, how? I looked in the BIOS and you can change volate, timings etc but without proper guidance on that IM dead in the water.

Why is Everest/Task manager reporting 8GB as 4GB, yet the BIOS at 8GB etc?

Ayone else having these issues or know what to do?!:eek:
 

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tomkat2006 said:
ok what timings/voltage etc do I use? Is this damgerous?
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No,don't touch it.There is no North Bridge Configuration option?

BIOS->Advance->Chipset->North Bridge Configuration->Enebled Memory Remaping

or you are really don't have this option your BIOS automaticly should remap memory :sarc:
Try to reset BIOS to default settings.
 

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I got it working again, but only via a fresh install. Fresh install, total ram is 8gb, though that at the moment its around 7gb, Im chalking the other gig up to cache or something. I think its all pagefile related. Confusing none the less.
 

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could it be that you are using a 32-bit app? i have a couple of programs that do not have any x64 counterparts, so obviously, i have to run the 32-bit version. of those apps that monitor memory in anyway, most report that i only have 4096MB of total system memory even though i have 8 gigs installed.
 

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