Hello, Thank you everyone for your replies. Ok, first of all I've got four banks of slots for ram. They are all from the same manufacture, same speed, and same size, I just ordered them in two separate orders. I'm going to get a pair of eyes on them today and give me a chip by chip check to confirm this. I do not have onboard video, my motherboard did not come with it so I've had to use an expansion card. Ben, thanks I did not get your reply, but I'll answer it here. I've removed and replaced each ram chip and the clips are indeed all aligned correctly, the ram is in. I did as I said remove and check the ram count, I've got dual channel so I thought i'd h ave to have the ram in in pairs, which I did during the testing, the numbers were all the same, as I said I can't believe I've got one to two bad chips one per order. Processors, I've got an AMD fx8120 8 core processor in the system. I've checked out the specs, and my motherboard is the rev 1.4. The fx8120 processor is supported as is 1866 mhz ddr3. As for slots, I've got all of them filled though thanks for the info on colors, I didn't throw a color identifier in the box. Specific processor? I hope I didn't make a mistake in the processor vs. the ram, otherwise I'll be having some hardware to part with. Thanks for the info on grml, I've actually got grml 2012.05, I'm going to give that a try, but any information you can give me on it about all I know is to test /proc/meminfo and see what it says, and it's been a while. Thanks again for all the suggestions. Dave. On 5/3/13, John G. Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> wrote:
If it was my machine, I would see what linux said. If you are interested, I can tell you how to do that. There is an accessible live linux distro called grml (pronounced "gremel"). See www.grml.org. We at the UW Math Dept are a mirror so you can download the ISO file at http://dl.math.wisc.edu/grml/
I gave you the the directory name so you could get to the checksums if you want to. A link to the latest iso itself is:
http://dl.math.wisc.edu/grml/grml64-full_2013.02.iso
On 05/02/13 10:53, David Mehler wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I've got a new machine and I maxed out it's ram. The board can take 32 GB of ram and that's what it has. It's running win7 professional 64 bit, (I checked Microsoft and that can take 192 GB of ram), and it's not showing ram right.
In system information I'm seeing total physical ram 24 gb, a full 8 short, usable physical ram 16 GB, and available when I look is 14.7 GB. I don't think these numbers are right.
The board is a gigabyte GA970-d3 rev 1.4. I believe it's dual channel. I took out the ram chips in pairs so instead of four the system had two, numbers were still not right, got 12 gb of total ram instead of 16.
The ram is g.skill 1866 clockspeed I believe but in the bios that's only at 1333. I can't believe I've got four bad chips, or since this came in two separate orders one bad chip per order. I'm now wondering if it's a timing issue, if the ram can't clock down from 1866 to 1333 usually in my experience hardware can clock down one level but not two.
I'm going to try a grml 64 USB disk when I return later today see what that shows, and I read it had a ram tester I'll give that a go.
I'd appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.
Thanks. Dave.
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