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Flashing Bios -- 12GB of RAM Installed -- 3.95GB Recognized

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Hey all.

While I consider myself a pretty well-rounded technical person, bios stuff still baffles me. I just order a 8GB pack from Newegg to couple with the 2 sticks (4GB together) that I already had. The ram is properly installed as I am using SIW and it says 12GBs installed. On the System pane in the Control Panel, Windows only shows that 3.95GB are usable.

From the searches that I have done, people are stating that I need to flash my bios. I am running the following board: Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard

Any help would be appreciated on how I go about taking advantage of 12GBs.
 
It could also be your OS. If it is 32bit then you would only be able to have 4g, I am sure you already knew that but hey, I can try to help :)

On a side note, I will never buy a Gigabyte motherboard ever again. Bought one 5 years ago and its chipset was so bad it would BSOD because it did not like my graphics card and they never released a fix for it.
 
If you still have your mobo manual look and read in it and they usually tell you what or where to get a bios flasher that is compatiable with your mobo... Def read before you start thought because if a flash goes bad say bye bye to your mobo :p
 
You allready 4gig of ram inside your PC, then you added another 8?


Is it possible one of the stick is not working properly? Could also be your old ram not working fine with your new one, or your mobo not accepting em all ( ram limit ) or are you running a 64 bit OS =p?

IMO play around with your ram, take off your old ram and place your new ram. See how that work
 
Honestly, to me, it sounds like you're on a 32-bit OS. That's the exact amount of RAM you'd be able to use on a 32-bit OS.
You should look into upgrading. I can hook you up with a Win 7 Pro x64 retail key for free if you need it!
 
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My bet is a 32 bit operating system. It will bottle down your ram detected to 4gb max. The only other option would be that your motherboard only supports 4gb, but this is very unlikely today.

Also, if you dont mind me asking, why such an abundance of ram? Unless you do very heavy coding and or graphics design, you will never use more than 4 and even with the heavy stuff, 6-8 will handle any thing you toss at it.

Let us know if you are using Windows 32 bit of 64, if it is a 32 bit system then that is why and flashing your bios will not change much.

I also advise against messing with bios if it is working properly, new bios changes a lot of things when it comes to your setup and it is a mess waiting to happen.
 
It was a 32 bit operating system issue. I upgraded to 64 bit and it shows everything :)
 
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