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Asus B43F says 8 GB Ram 2 G usable

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by byrono, Sep 9, 2011.

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I have a Asus B43F Win 7 Pro 64 bit . I upgraded to 8 GB ram (2x4 gig) from 2 gb the system properties says 8 gb ram 2 gb usable. I turned on and pressed f2 to get to bios. under the Main heading the only thing that i can do is change the date and time. every thing under the system memory heading is grayed out it shows 8192 MB (DDR3 : 1067 MHs) which is grayed out and I can't access it. The memory I added is gskill F3-10666CL9D-8GBSQ DDR3-1333 PC3-10666 4096MB x 2 I contacted ASUS before purchasing the memory and they said this memory should work in their computer. Any Ideas how to get the ram recognized ?

byrono, Sep 9, 2011

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Can you please post what CPU is in that computer?

It's possible that the CPU memory controller only recognizes 2GB.

Hungry Man, Sep 9, 2011

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Run msconfig, look in Boot tab, click on Advanced Options, and make sure maximum memory is not set.

goofball, Sep 9, 2011

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Do what goofball said also go to resource monitor and go to memory then take a screen shot or tell me what it says

joshanator, Sep 9, 2011

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