Win 7 not using all 8GB of Ram

[Anthony Conner]

Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
CPU
AMD FX-8320 22 °C
Vishera 32nm Technology
RAM
8.00 GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (11-11-11-24)
Motherboard
MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) (CPU1)
Graphics
HP S2031 (1600x900@60Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Graphics has 1GB of it's own memory, and Win7 is still reserving 4GB of my 8 for Hardware when it shouldn't be. My MB supports up to 16GB max; I tried changing the RAM around, I've tried setting it in Advanced boot settings. Nothing works Any help?

 

[Anthony Conner]

Hmm, that is strange.
Unfortunately I'm out of ideas, I can't find much on the boards that describe your problem either.
You can try swapping out different ram chips and see if that helps.
Other than that, bad motherboard.
Sorry I can't help you more.

Got it, not sure what it was but I got it. I took out the RAM put it back in one by one, tried different slots, made sure each slot worked properly, at first it wasn't loading with the second slot, and I thought it was that; but I got it working, it's possible the seating may of been loose or just needed switched around again cause I'm running 8/8 now. Thanks!

 

[memadmax]

haha!
Grats!
lol, ok, well, ur good to go, have fun lol
=D

 

[Anthony Conner]

haha!
Grats!
lol, ok, well, ur good to go, have fun lol
=D

Maybe I shouldn't have spoke cause now I'm crashing 10 way's from sunday, and I don't know why it seems to of stabilized now but before it was crashing moment I loaded windows went into BIOS played a nice loud sound if internal windows music for me. I just hope it can stay stable.

 

[Anthony Conner]

haha!
Grats!
lol, ok, well, ur good to go, have fun lol
=D

I ended up trying to make it save an extra GB and now it's back to 4GB usable... I don't understand what's wrong with this thing..

Wouldn't have any idea on that, would you?