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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    Alright I'm back! With the pc i figured out what was the problem! One of the dimm sockets pins was bent and was making a short. Turns out when i was removing the board from the pc, i accidentally bent one of the pins and it was making a short. Due to the reason of me being an idi** I didn't...
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    Already tried that, it doesn't work.
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    Yes, both sticks work together, and they did for well over 10 years. SSD is an apacer 240gb "panther" I bought that when the psu was bought. I will try to install windows 8 or 7 on the hdd while the ssd is removed.
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    Hello! I have an update on the "bad" ram stick. Turns out i am just stupid and the ram just didn't click in the slot! Ran memtest with the "bad" ram, 0 errors. Windows boots with it as well. Second, I have updated the bios from ver 1.6 to 1.7 and it works. Still I'm scared of the 2.0 update due...
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    Oh, and I almost forgot to post this aswell View: https://imgur.com/a/ZFjdWWZ View: https://imgur.com/a/rH0jdMo
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    Alright, I got hom and ran dxdiag and these are the results View: https://imgur.com/a/WUaEtuF
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    So first off, the bios does disable th igpu if there is a garphics card installed in the pci ecpress port. I can't get to my pc right now because i am at my grandmas, i will be back home in around a hour or so. I'll give you an update if i get back
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    Hi! I will run the dxdiag, and will come back with the results in english. The link you included is describing exactly the same problem that i'm experiencing.
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    And one more! After getting my 750 out of the build, now there is only 3,5gb usable(that half gb is normal because the igpu need s 512mb of ram) so it might actually not be the ram stick that is bad.
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    But the problem still stands... I installed a mismatch(I know that i shouldnt do that) 1gb stick for a hp elite 8000. It recognized it but i can still use only 4 gb of ram. I have no clue still why that is the case
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    I think i found the problem! With the second ram stick the pc doesn't want to post. Neither does it work in the first or second slot. I thin it's safe to assume that the second ram stick is dead. Thanks to everyone for helping me!
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    Alright, here I go again. First ram tested ok, 0 errors, took 2 and a half hours. Will test the secind stick soon
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    Oh and also, yesterday before posting, windows booted with both ram sticks. I tried one in both slots, and the pc booted up in a matter of seconds. That is the same with thr other stick.
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    I have just completed the burning of the memtest iso to usb. I will come back when the testing is done
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    Question I can only use half of my installed ram

    View: https://imgur.com/a/Fky56Ym Here is the link to the screenshot