Pop OS 20.04 ram upgrade

Got two new sticks of 8GB ram identical to existing,
bios and windows recognize 32GB
lshw recognizes 4 sticks of 8GB
free only recognizes 16GB

decided to finally come and hangout,
Hi wendell might remmeber me from bsmods booth at ltx 2019

anyway,
any bit of help would be appreciated
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