How do i fix this?!

[Gloks]

Hey guys, so I have recently upgraded my cpu from an old I7 2.26ghz to a new i7 960 3.2ghz. It allows up to 24 gigs of ram? or 16. Something much more then I have. I have windows 64 bit, a motherboard which supports up to 24 gigs and I just dont know what to do! Heres a pic too.



Its only allowing 8 gigs of ram. It makes no sense to me and as it says I have 12. In the BIOS it says I have 12 as well and I cant find any sort of memory remapping option in the AWARD Bios. HELP! I forgot to add that for some reason when I go to task manager, performance, click performance monitor and then memory it actually says that I have 4 gigs of ram in reserve?

 

[Sniper]

Which motherboard is it? Is all the RAM from the same manufactured or mixed?

 

[Ghostman 1]

Did you do a fresh install of Windows ? Have you tried resetting you Bios ?

 

[Gloks]

Which motherboard is it? Is all the RAM from the same manufactured or mixed?

It's an X58 classified motherboard. And it's alll the same ram. Sniper G skill 3 channel ram I believe. I have tried a fresh install of windows and I flashed my bios because I had to update it anyways.

 

[Sniper]

"X58 classified motherboard" is still pretty vague information, the problem could be related to particular manufacturer.

Anyway I think it might be the limit set by windows. Do you happen to have "Windows 7 Home Basic edition"? If yes, then the limit is "8GB"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx

 

[Gloks]

"X58 classified motherboard" is still pretty vague information, the problem could be related to particular manufacturer.

Anyway I think it might be the limit set by windows. Do you happen to have "Windows 7 Home Basic edition"? If yes, then the limit is "8GB"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx

I have windows 7 ultimate.