Problems with RAM and Vista 64.

Converge · 23 Nov 2007 at 15:29

Hey guys,

Got a bit of a frustrating problem at the moment, i have recently upgraded to Vista 64, so i bought another 2 Gb of Corsair RAM (in my sig) to bring my total amount up to 4Gb. Upon installing Vista without problems etc, i found that for some reason, it was only detecting 3008Mb (2098mb depending if i check the system panel) of it, instead of the full 4Gb.

The bios reports 3008Mb too.

I've checked the RAM by taking one out, leaving the other in, trying different RAM sockets etc, too see if maybe i had a faulty stick, they are both working fine, but i can never get it any higher than the above amount.

What's going on?? :confused:

Admiral Huddy · 23 Nov 2007 at 15:41

If it's reporting wrong in BIOS, it may be that it needs flashing:

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5B

Looking 0701 and 0509, there are some RAM changes.

I would update with the latest, just to eliminate that.

Converge · 23 Nov 2007 at 15:53

I think i've fixed it now, i enabled memory remapping in the Bios, and its now reporting 4Gb of memory

There are no adverse side affects to enabling that is there?

I've the most up to date Bios, so i think that could be ruled out.

Thanks for the quick reply

Admiral Huddy · 23 Nov 2007 at 16:51

I've not come across that??

Glad it's sorted

Converge · 23 Nov 2007 at 17:12

Yeah, it's description doesn't say anything to suggest it would help with that. But it was something i read on the Corsair forum, so i thought i would give it a whirl

And hey presto, it worked