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NEED HELP, why won't my MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0m board recognize 4gb of ram

PostPosted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:45 am
by FRASSE226
Hi,

I have upgrade my OS to Windows 7 from Windows XP Home but I only cane use 3.3 GB memory of 4GB installd.

My spec.

Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600)
Install Language: Svenska (Sverige)
System Locale: Svenska (Sverige)

Board: MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.47 03/03/2006

2,20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Not hyper-threaded

3328 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A3' has 1024 MB

c: (NTFS on drive 1)      1000,10 GB      952,22 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 0)      293,59 GB      37,88 GB free
k: (NTFS on drive 2)      160,04 GB      136,05 GB free

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT [Display adapter]
Allm

Re: NEED HELP, why won't my MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0m board recognize 4gb of ram

PostPosted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:32 am
by FuturePilot
Do you have 32 bit OS or 64 bit? If you have 32 bit, that's why.

Re: NEED HELP, why won't my MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0m board recognize 4gb of ram

PostPosted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:07 pm
by FRASSE226
My spec.

Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600)

Re: NEED HELP, why won't my MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0m board recognize 4gb of ram

PostPosted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:24 pm
by Groundbound1
I did some reading, and this seems to be common with this model motherboard.
It may simply be a hardware limitation.

[url=http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00378480&dlc=en&lc=en&cc=us]"NOTE:

Re: NEED HELP, why won't my MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0m board recognize 4gb of ram

PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:21 am
by FRASSE226
OK, thx for your info.

Well, I will built a brand new game computer.
I have order the following ( tell me if you think it will be a good putter)

Windows 7 -x64
I7 -930
DDR3 3x2GB
MB - GA X58A-UDR3
Graphic Card - NVidia GTX 260+
Cabinet - Antec 300
PC power - Corsair 650W

What do you think ? I think I also have good chance to OC if I like to.

P

Re: NEED HELP, why won't my MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0m board recognize 4gb of ram

PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:03 am
by Slotback
Very nice...

but if you want to overclock then it's best getting DDR3-1600 with a CAS latency of 6 or 7.

Re: NEED HELP, why won't my MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0m board recognize 4gb of ram

PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:11 am
by FRASSE226
OK, Thx

Maybe is it that what I order, my friend help me to do the order (LOL)

I will back when I'm ready for doing some OC tasks.
Par