Recovering lost DRAM

Loosen the cooler a bit or reseat the CPU. There's been cases with some Gigabyte boards where if the cooler is on too tight, Windows will only have 4gb usable. There's a few threads about it if you search around.
 
you have a problem then somewhere

what you need to do now is test one stick at a time in one white ram slot,test all sticks

(it will boot from one stick of ram)

then repeat the test one the other two white slots but one at a time

the aim is to find the faulty ram slot or stick as it won't bootup

it can also be a blown capacitor on the mb,i rma'd an x58 for the same issue and the repair report that came back was for a capacitor replacement,board worked fine after

but try above first
 
I just tested all 3 sticks in the same slot and windows booted every time with no error messages... The CPU cooler is bolts from behind the motherboard but I can't think that it would be too tight given how its attached. Do you think one of the MOBO slots could be faulty? I assume I can boot windows using just 1 slot it doesn't matter which?
 
Ok, just tried all three slots and it seems to be that all the sticks work but the middle slot on the motherboard doesn't, when I try and boot I get nothing, just a black screen, no beeps or anything...
 
its the middle slot then,it could be motherboard flex (which breaks the copper traces inside the board from cpu to the memory banks) overtightened cpu cooler,bent cpu socket pins or something mb related like blown capacitor ect

if I were you I would request an rma with gigabyte uk and they will repair it
 
As its now a few years old and out of warranty do you think it's worth sending back for a repair or cheaper to replace?
 
ask them first,they fixed mine out of warranty for free(though it was only a few months out)

I would ask and ask how much
 
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