Quote Originally Posted by SkOrPn View Post
>>Welcome to XS westokyo. Thank you, looking to be an XS'r to contribute back.

>>Has this 12 gigs ever showed up in bios and Windows before? No, it has not.

>>Or has it always been gone since you put the system together? Exactly

>>Sounds to me like the CPU did not seat both times, only trying twice isn't enough imo. I would look at the pins under a magnifying glass to see if there are any bent pins (if thats even possible). The connectors are flat

>>Almost everyone here has solved the missing memory problems by re-seating the cpu. If not, I think its time you RMA because you could have a cpu socket or memory socket problem. Can try to re-seat again, maybe canned-air and etoh cleaner

>>One last thing to try would be to fire her up with only one stick in slot 1, then do the same for slot 2, and then slot 3 and so on. If the comp does not fire up one of those times then you have a bad connection somewhere, either the cpu socket or memory slot. If you do find a slot not working, you could then try another stick in that same non working slot just to see if its the stick you just tried. I have a feeling you probably tried this though. Let us know please...I have tried this, system wont boot with only 1 stick, only with 3 or 6 sticks. I tried all dimms in slot 1,3,5 and 2,4,6 in a bunch of combos with 1 and 2 sticks.
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