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NEED HELP, why won't my MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0m board recognize 4gb of ram (Read 882 times)

Apr 27^th, 2010 at 1:45am

FRASSE226 Offline
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Hi,

I have upgrade my OS to Windows 7 from Windows XP Home but I only cane use 3.3 GB memory of 4GB installd.

My spec.

Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600)
Install Language: Svenska (Sverige)
System Locale: Svenska (Sverige)

Board: MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.47 03/03/2006

2,20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Not hyper-threaded

3328 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A3' has 1024 MB

c: (NTFS on drive 1) 1000,10 GB 952,22 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 0) 293,59 GB 37,88 GB free
k: (NTFS on drive 2) 160,04 GB 136,05 GB free

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT [Display adapter]
Allmän icke-PnP-bildskärm [Monitor]
BenQ G2220HDA [Monitor] (21,7"vis, s/n AC902858SL0, december 2009)

I hope someone have a solution to this problem, what to do.

Pär

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Reply #1 - Apr 27^th, 2010 at 10:32am

FuturePilot Offline
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Grand Cayman

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Do you have 32 bit OS or 64 bit? If you have 32 bit, that's why.

ASUS M4A89GTD, 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, 160GB 10,000 RPM HDD + 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, AMD Phenom II x4 965BE 3.4 GHz OC @ 3.8 GHz, 1GB EVGA GeForce GDDR5 GPU

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Reply #2 - Apr 27^th, 2010 at 1:07pm

FRASSE226 Offline
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My spec.

Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600)

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Reply #3 - Apr 27^th, 2010 at 2:24pm

Groundbound1 Offline
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I did some reading, and this seems to be common with this model motherboard.
It may simply be a hardware limitation.

"NOTE: *Actual available memory may be less "

Specs: Asus Crosshair nForce 590 SLI,
AMD Athlon X2 6400+ w/ZeroTherm BTF90,
4GB G.Skill PI Series DDR2-800,
Sapphire HD4870 512MB,
PC P&C 750 Quad, in a CoolerMaster HAF932

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Reply #4 - Apr 28^th, 2010 at 7:21am

FRASSE226 Offline
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OK, thx for your info.

Well, I will built a brand new game computer.
I have order the following ( tell me if you think it will be a good putter)

Windows 7 -x64
I7 -930
DDR3 3x2GB
MB - GA X58A-UDR3
Graphic Card - NVidia GTX 260+
Cabinet - Antec 300
PC power - Corsair 650W

What do you think ? I think I also have good chance to OC if I like to.

Pär

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Reply #5 - Apr 28^th, 2010 at 9:03am