BillNov
08-28-2006, 05:00 PM
Hi ,
First time poster...have recently built a Conroe system 6600 with the Asus P5B Deluxe MB. I am using the 4 sticks of the Corsair 6400C4 memory(compatible based on ASUS web site- QVL). When I use all 4, the bios only shows 3. I am also using VISTA which can utilize 16 GB. Since the bios only shows 3, that is what VISTA sees....when I run CPU-Z on it, it shows all 4 sticks. I have called ASUS, and they originally said that it used the 1 GB above 3, for different board resources...PCI-E and so on. When I spoke to a different tech, they said the other tech was mistaken since the board can use 8 GB, and it would only use the "8th" GB of memory for this function. Since VISTA uses almost 1GB just to load on my system...I really wanted to be able to use the entire 4 GB. Don't know if this is a problem with just the ASUS P5B Dlx board, or was common to all 965 chipsets. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Regards
Bill
First time poster...have recently built a Conroe system 6600 with the Asus P5B Deluxe MB. I am using the 4 sticks of the Corsair 6400C4 memory(compatible based on ASUS web site- QVL). When I use all 4, the bios only shows 3. I am also using VISTA which can utilize 16 GB. Since the bios only shows 3, that is what VISTA sees....when I run CPU-Z on it, it shows all 4 sticks. I have called ASUS, and they originally said that it used the 1 GB above 3, for different board resources...PCI-E and so on. When I spoke to a different tech, they said the other tech was mistaken since the board can use 8 GB, and it would only use the "8th" GB of memory for this function. Since VISTA uses almost 1GB just to load on my system...I really wanted to be able to use the entire 4 GB. Don't know if this is a problem with just the ASUS P5B Dlx board, or was common to all 965 chipsets. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Regards
Bill