RAM HELP

[deathparade]

Ok so i have 8 GB RAM but for some butthurt reason windows only uses 6 while my friend has the same 8 GB but windows uses it all.

Now today i started up my PC and while loading it just froze and woulden't respond i turned it off and on started windows and now i have 4 GB?!

This thing is now so damn slow and only have 1,7 GB left out of the 4

Help?

[Ark of Truth]

Ok need the following information.

- Motherboard model

- Operating System, including bit version

[deathparade]

Windows 7 64-bit

Asus M5A97 PRO With a AMD FX-6100 Black Edition

Also it just went down to 2 GB got 700 MB left ._.

[Slammer64]

Sounds like you have ram sticks failing, grab a copy of memtest and run it: http://www.memtest.org/#downiso Also, have you updated the bios recently?

[deathparade]

Iam behind 1 version if i recall... but Asus BIOS updating in a safe way you need software that require like 10 other programs and patches to work

[Ark of Truth]

Try taking your RAM out and resetting it back into the motherboard.

[deathparade]

Did that right now with 2 these seem to work fine!

Found out that one of the 2 i use now is broken... I don't think PCs run with just 3 Cards?

[Ark of Truth]

Did that right now with 2 these seem to work fine!

Found out that one of the 2 i use now is broken... I don't think PCs run with just 3 Cards?

You can fine a PC run with just 3 RAM cards. It will run even with just 1.

[gregathit]

Older PC's used to require matching pairs of RAM, depending on your MB you may be able to run odd numbers.

[Slammer64]

He has a modern motherboard gregathit, running 8 gig of ram, they haven't used parity ram since the original DDR, so he'll be fine.

[deathparade]

Gonna try that! i just heard that somewhere before...

[gregathit]

He has a modern motherboard gregathit' date=' running 8 gig of ram, they haven't used parity ram since the original DDR, so he'll be fine.

[/quote']

Exactly what I was trying to say.

[deathparade]

Well it was always 6 GB totally used and always keeping 2 GB back for some odd reason