Missing ram, just to update the board, I found the issue behind the missing 4gigs of ram. The CPU seat had 2 bent pins



I am surprised the machine would even post. So the racking of my brain over the past 3 weeks was this. I manage to slightly bend them back into place (not an easy feat if you are hung-over). But as you can see, it's working perfectly.



Also I would like to thank Dansobolanu from another board as he was going through the same issue and pointed me in the right direction. Cheers for now and the next round of beers are on me!