K9N Diamond Not Recognizing 4GB of RAM

I recently decided to get another kit of 2 x 1GB of RAM (since they're so cheap nowadays), but somehow it's not being reported during bootup that I now have 4GB.
RAM settings are all set to defaults in the BIOS. I've tried a combination of my old set with one and the other sticks from the new set. Boots up ok, but where's the other 1GB?
Funny thing is, CPU-Z reports that I have 4GB, so does the system info section of the Nvidia Control Panel.
Am I missing something here?

Look for option "SoftWare Memory hole" and Enable it, in "Memory Configuration" under "Cell Menu", location BIOS.
But also you have to use x64bit OS, read here: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=108883.0

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I just though I would try to post here to see if anyone had any ideas as to what might be the cause or if I should just RMA the board and hope it gets resolved.
To sum it up I have a PC that doesn't always like to reboot (not a problem really as I don't like to reboot it except for when getting updates) and will not recognize the DVD drive plugged into the SATA ports. Originally I thought it may have just been a flaky optical drive as it worked long enough for me to get the OS installed and everything set up back in late June early July. However for some reason Windows XP Pro x64 and the BIOS stopped recognizing the optical drive. Since I thought it might have just been a flaky drive I didn't worry about it too much as I had everything set up - was just annoying that I couldn't watch DVDs (but I could just go to the other room to do that so not biggie). On Saturday I bought a new DVD drive (one that could play Blue Ray disks figuring since I have my monitor hooked up through an HDMI cable why not also have the capability to play Blue Ray disks) and the same problem exists. The BIOS will on a rare occasion actually recognize the DVD drive however as soon as it reboots again it will not and even when it did recognize the DVD drive by the time Windows loaded up it didn't pick up on it.
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