MSI RD480 Neo2 Not seeing all my RAM!!

damian44 · 14 Mar 2006 at 17:43

Hi,

I have added 4x1gig Corsair Memory to this motherboard but the board is only seeing 3 gig - I have tried swapping them indivdually to see if any of them were not working but they all are so the problem must be with the motherboard.

I had 4x512mb sticks in before so it cannot be that on of the slots is not working either.

Please help!!

leezer3 · 14 Mar 2006 at 18:53

BIOS or Windows?
AFAIK, Windows XP 32 Bit can only handle around 3.2gbs of memory. (And will show that)

-Leezer-

lay-z-boy · 14 Mar 2006 at 19:58

32 bit xp has a cap on the max memory.....
around 3gb iirc.

damian44 · 14 Mar 2006 at 21:55

I am running Windows Xp64 but it is the mobo as when I first start up it is only stating I have 3 gig.

I am going to have to change the mobo to another as I feel this maybe an unsolveable problem!

dual2max · 20 Mar 2006 at 12:07

damian44 said:
I am running Windows Xp64 but it is the mobo as when I first start up it is only stating I have 3 gig.

I am going to have to change the mobo to another as I feel this maybe an unsolveable problem!

So, BIOS counts 3Gb, System Information sees 3Gb & CPU-Z sees 3Gb and in Dual mode.
All these should see available physical memory, regardless of how much windows requires.
Are you running the latest bios version.
Try each stick individually with memtest.
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