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Task manager not showing my available amount of memory.

Arctic_OSB
By Arctic_OSB
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So in my BIOS and on DXDiag my system memory shows as 16GB but recently on my W10 task manager performance tab it only shows system memory as 11.9GB.

Would anyone happen to know what's going on?

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11 minutes ago, Arctic_OSB said:

So in my BIOS and on DXDiag my system memory shows as 16GB but recently on my W10 task manager performance tab it only shows system memory as 11.9GB.

Would anyone happen to know what's going on?

How many sticks of ram do you have.

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There's hardware reserved memory, so the full 16GB won't be available. 

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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The simplest way to fix this issue is to do a reinstall of Windows. The answer above is incorrect, Hardware Reserved should be around 100MB not GB's.

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22 minutes ago, Xreldo said:

How many sticks of ram do you have.

4 modules of 4GB.

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42 minutes ago, Altecice said:

The simplest way to fix this issue is to do a reinstall of Windows. The answer above is incorrect, Hardware Reserved should be around 100MB not GB's.

Well, I have seen hardware reserved memory amounts be up to around 5GB before, so.....

Main System: Phobos

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina

 

Secondary System: York

Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

 

Older File Server: Yet to be named

Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2

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