A couple of nights ago, a program I was using told me I had 8GB of RAM installed, when I in fact have 12GB, and I just ignored it because I thought it was a fault of the program. Well, I happened to see the 8GB figure again, and sure enough, I rebooted to find the BIOS detecting just 8GB of RAM. I've been using 12GB of RAM for months and months, so what's the deal?
I booted into the BIOS, and this is what I saw:
Notice that for some reason, two modules are not "enabled", and one is not even shown as being installed, yet it IS enabled. It's foolishness. I flashed to the latest BIOS, hoping taht would fix things, but it didn't. What I did do was swap the memory modules from one slot to the next, A <> B, C <> D, E <> F, and then rebooted. Surprisingly, that fixed it.
Has anyone had this happen before? I'm wondering what would cause it, since I've been using all 12GB for a good while. I wasn't overclocking or fiddling around with settings like that, so this is bizarre.
I booted into the BIOS, and this is what I saw:
Notice that for some reason, two modules are not "enabled", and one is not even shown as being installed, yet it IS enabled. It's foolishness. I flashed to the latest BIOS, hoping taht would fix things, but it didn't. What I did do was swap the memory modules from one slot to the next, A <> B, C <> D, E <> F, and then rebooted. Surprisingly, that fixed it.
Has anyone had this happen before? I'm wondering what would cause it, since I've been using all 12GB for a good while. I wasn't overclocking or fiddling around with settings like that, so this is bizarre.