Phenom II X2 P650/G62-407DX/RAM?

Hey everyone, my father bought the G62-407DX from BestBuy last Tuesday and I had it over my place all week because he bought a ton of crap the jerks at BestBuy sold him (he's never owned a computer before... ever). So I got him to take back Kaspersky, the ask a Geeksquad garbage, and a router he bought (he already has one from ATT U-verse). They also wanted to charge him $100 to reinstall Win 7 to get rid of the HP bloatware.



Anyways, I had him take back all of that crap since I told him I'd do it all for free. I bought this for his laptop with the money saved:



Newegg.com - Seagate Momentus 7200.4 ST9500420AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive



Newegg.com - G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Laptop Memory Model F3-8500CL7D-8GBSQ



First, let me say that I had no clue HP doesn't have the decency of sending you a recovery DVD with drivers/OS on it. That really sucked. I ended up just using my Win 7 DVD and calling in the OEM key which allowed me to authenticate his version. The laptop boots twice as fast now. The thing is, I can't find drivers for the chipset at all and even HP doesn't have them in the download section for the drivers. I haven't used AMD stuff since 2003 and every Intel laptop/desktop I've built has had drivers. Is there something somewhere I'm missing? The laptop is working great but I wanted to be sure.



Second, My Computer --> Properties is only showing 4gb of RAM installed. I noticed this last night after authenticating Win 7. I swapped out the sticks and the same problem, I took out one stick and checked, then swapped the stick for the other and checked, and each time I'm getting 4gb (64 bit). I'm 99% certain this laptop can handle 8, and haven't had time to run MemTest yet, but what would cause this? I'm really hoping it isn't hardware related to the laptop because it was a ridiculous pain to get the HDD swapped. They had so many freakin screws in there, for the sleeve alone it was nuts.



Just to note as well, that laptop had the worst touchpad I've ever seen in my life. All in all it was a good buy for $400 with tax and he'll be able to use iTunes and Netflix with the HDMI out to his TV. I just haven't had a scenario where RAM isn't being read all the way when swapping sticks causes the laptop to run fine but only half of it is being recognized.



Thanks!