possibly hardware reserved for integrated graphics?
Hardware devices can reserve large blocks of phsical addres space... To see if a piece of harwarde is reserving a large chunk of physical address space, launch "devmgmt.msc", select Resources by Connection in the View Menu, and expand the Memory node.
So did the Bios finds 4 GB or 8GB? This was the main question from the beginning. If the BIOS finds all 8GB re-install Windows, better take other version in order to be sure.
If the Bios does not finds the RAM download the proper ASUS AI Suite 2 or the one that works with your mobo- it makes bios flashing really easy task.
Also I see that you haven't installed some USB drivers for your mobo. I suggest to download and instlall the newest stuff for your mobo as well after BIOS update- chipset and every other available and needed driver, if you are not sure what you need just use the provided by ASUS AI Suite autoupdater tools.
Also do you run some VMWare Players/Clients or other similar virtual machines? If this is the case they load up in your RAM.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
It is your Mobo Memory controller- somehow it shows only 4 GB.
Update to the latest BIOS Version with the latest chip-set drivers and it should work.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
just a thought, did you buy them as a matched pair, for dual channel performance?, as they might be same kinda specs, but they dont look like a matched pair
No I didn't. The smaller sized sticks I bought when my PC said that the ram had gone bad and wouldn't boot up anymore. After I bought the new ram and installed it with the old stuff, the old stuff started to randomly work again. So it was actually a wasted purchase, but now I have it so.....
I downloaded and tried the 2nd from the top. Not sure if I have to update each bios version individually till I get to the newest one, or if I can just do something else.
If you needed to install all of the updates then it'd tell you so. Given that it doesn't, it is highly unlikely that you'd have to do that. The one you tried should work, but evidently it does not. Try installing the previous update, if that doesn't work still then try the next one, and so forth.
Just download Asus AI Suite 2 , then download separately the latest bios version
Version 2101 as it shows in Asus site.
Then use the program to update your bios. After you done that check on the ram- if it works fine if not then repeat the same with:
BUPDATER 1.12
from BIOS tools.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
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