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Geek Culture / I went from 8Gb to 2Gb of RAM for no appearent reason..... HELP!

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DeadTomGC
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2012 06:16
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I was just having some loading time issues when I noticed on my tasks manager that I only had 2 Gbs of RAM when I have 8 installed!

I checked all the stick by themselves in all the slots and they all worked. But it won't let me use more than 2Gbs at a time! Anyone got ideas of what's wrong here?


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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2012 06:36
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reset the bios, switch around the memory sticks, Try for a start filling only 1 of the DIMM slots to see if it works, and retry that using a different slots every time, It will help you figure out if the memory is broken or is it a problem with the MB.

I memory sticks being burned is very rare occurance, Not a single laptop or desktop memory stick (be it SDR or DDR or RIMM or DDR3 memory rarley failes.


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DeadTomGC
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2012 09:05
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Hey, I actually found out that a little fix I using to make a game run properly was causing the problem. It is now resolved.

HOWEVER, Does anyone know how to get rid of a wubi installation of ubuntu? It is showing up in my boot up screen but it is not in the control panel.


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nonZero
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I dunno if this will help much since I'm not very experienced with Wubi. I usually install Ubuntu on its own partition (the regular method). Anyway hopefully this is of some use.

If you have run the uninstall already, then it should be gone. If it's still showing the bootloader when your pc starts up, then try using msconfig to set the default OS to windows. I think you can remove the boot entry too, iirc.

If you have not run the uninstaller yet, I don't know why it's not showing up in the installed programs. Maybe see if CCCleaner can pick it up as an installed application.

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Jeff032
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You should be able to remove the bootloader entry with bcdedit.exe (part of Windows) if you are careful. Alternatively, you could install EasyBCD which is probably ... easier.
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DeadTomGC
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2012 21:16
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Thanks for the help! I've got that taken care of now!


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