upgrade my Quad MP 2009 ram to 6Gb win7 identify 4.9GB??

Hii alll,

I've upgraded my Quad MP ram to 6 GB recently, but win7 identify 4.9 GB Only. Moreover, my MP behaved strangely after the upgrade, when it is running under win7. The graphic card (Ati 4870) rating went down from 7 to 2. I installed the latest driver from ati, but all games were crashing once I started or performed any action. I had no other option expect to remove win 7 partition and reinstall it again to solve this issue; and make the lovely phone call for Micro to activate it? (believe or not; you have to phone them every time you made a format to your Pc to activate win 7). Regards what I've done with win 7; it could not identify 6GBz; it identifies 4.9GB only. Are there any solutions or recommendations to solve this issue??? and why pc performance has affected because of the ram upgrade??

Thanks in advance

Thanks for your respond; the Rams are used apple ram I bought them through ebay, the owner did not use them since he swap them immediately as he mentioned to me; I do not have any problem while I am running under mac osx. Mac OSX has identified the ram once I installed them. But win 7 has different story. And yes you have to go to the same activation process again for win 7 not sure why, but I will confirm with them tomorrow. The activation combination numbers win 7 agent gave to me were completely different numbers??

Definitely there is an issue with win 7 if you swap hardware in MP

I run memtest, the test shows failure in lock at the begining, but test passed at the end. Not sure what is the cause and I am not sure how to solve it. I won't make any judegment against the person who I bought ram from him because he was honest with me.

hollyw0od said:

That's strange. I've reinstalled twice on the same machine and then switched to a Mac Mini without having to call them.

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I do not know why this happened, but I had to phone them again to get win 7 activiated.

balamw said:

If nothing else, I'd reseat the RAM and maybe even swap the locations of the new and old RAM and re-run memtest. You may just have trapped a dust bunny in your RAM slot.

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I guess I should do that, I will try combination of old and new RAM and I will check the results and try to figure out if there is any defective RAM. I will be offline for a while. I may post the results later.