You should be grateful that your system can use that much. A lot of recent motherboards still don't have proper BIOS support for >4GB RAM
Look through the recently closed x86-64 forum and witness the number of threads about RAM usage.
hmmmm.....yaa....found one thread about Tyan K8WE....released in 2005....and another thread about Asus P5VM, about 2 (or 3)years old......couple of threads about laptops. I doubt there are many recent boards with problems supporting >4GB....maybe a very small number.
I know the problem. Some MBs have problems with 4 sticks sitting in them (usually that's all slots taken). And that usually requires a significant voltage increase on one of the bridges (north?).
Also, New MBs are more and more "memory picky", always check the manafacturer's website for all supported memory brands and models.
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