I just did that, it says 12gb. The only place that says 16gb is cpu-z.
I'll check one more time though. Hold on a sec
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I'll check one more time though. Hold on a sec
Yeah, I just checked the bios. 12288mb (so 12gb). How could this be possible with only 2 8gb sticks?
Notorious Jerry
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Ok thats fine I want you to use your jumpers and remove the cmos battery clearing your mobo.
shyt, I'm gonna have to fukk with that tomorrow. But so by removing the cmos battery, it should clear the mobo and get things back to normal?
Notorious Jerry
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Yep it will reset your mobo memory. A few things could be wrong a mobo setting ram in improper slot. It however has nothing to do with the OS you have. Your ram sticks or a stick could also not be seated properly.
Thanks. I'm gonna try that tomorrow. I'm gonna do a factory reset from the bios now (try the easy way first and fukk with the harder shyt tomorrow). It's just weird that it's only using half of one of my sticks. Strange shyt
Notorious Jerry
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Your issues pretty common bro. Most the time the issues in the bios or a bad stick of ram.
Well the easy way didn't work...lol
I think it's the bios. I used memtest86+ for like 12 hours to test the ram before and I got no errors. Looks like I'm gonna reset tomorrow and see how things go. Thanks again for your help
Notorious Jerry
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Np Honestly mother boards at times give false info my asus hero mobo gives bad temp reading if cpu z tells you that your system is running 16gb it safe.
I just checked in the bios and it's saying a dimm slot is "abnormal" This may be a bigger problem than I thought. I did some research. I might have to get a new mobo if the ram is not faulty (which I don't think it is). Luckily I got a warranty on the mobo where they'll just give me a new one on the spot.
Hopefully a reset will work, but I'm not certain
Notorious Jerry
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K their are some test you can do to test if the ram is bad like removing a stick at a time and seeing if they both pass ram test error free. If both work and pass both test then move to making sure they in proper slots. But shid we can visit that tomorrow. Hope its not a bad mobo
Thanks. One of the USB 3 ports isn't working either now. Something is fukked up. I really hope it's not a mobo issue too. I'll recheck the ram and hope that usb 3 port works tomorrow. :fingerscrossed:
Sounds like a mobo issue. Try this:
Remove a ram stick and see if the amount available in Windows shows up as half. If not try putting the stick of RAM in one of the slots to see which one is the problem.
Thanks. I'm gonna give that a try tomorrow too. I fear the worst though.
If this usb 3 shyt doesn't magically resolve itself too, I'm gonna have to replace the mobo anyway
It just fixed itself for no goddamn reason 
What the fukk is going on?
What the fukk is going on?
