Hardware Reserved please fix

[EggyJ]

Why is 8260MB being hardware reserverd, I've tried Msconfig, changing ram slots and going into regedit.

4x4GB ram from hyperx Fury 2400hz

[boggy77]

2 minutes ago, EggyJ said:

Why is 8260MB being hardware reserverd, I've tried Msconfig, changing ram slots and going into regedit.

4x4GB ram from hyperx Fury 2400hz

it's usually for integrated gpu, but this looks a bit much, indeed. unless you're using integrated gpu with 2 4k screens.

[EggyJ]

No, i'm not trying to use a intergrated GPU. Just installed to today and seems that everytime i put it in, its saves 8GB for Hardware reserved

[191x7]

1 minute ago, EggyJ said:

No, i'm not trying to use a intergrated GPU. Just installed to today and seems that everytime i put it in, its saves 8GB for Hardware reserved

Clear the CMOS (reset BIOS) and recheck.

[Kilrah]

Try all your RAM sticks one at a time, one might be faulty. Alternatively it could be a mobo slot that makes bad contact or is damaged.

[EggyJ]

23 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Clear the CMOS (reset BIOS) and recheck.

can you explain how i can do that on a asus motherboard

[EggyJ]

24 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Try all your RAM sticks one at a time, one might be faulty. Alternatively it could be a mobo slot that makes bad contact or is damaged.

Pretty sure that all Ram sticks a working and compatible.

[191x7]

2 minutes ago, EggyJ said:

can you explain how i can do that on a asus motherboard

The easiest way to do this, on most motherboards, is to turn off the PC and unplug, open the side panel, take the battery out for a few minutes (the CR2032 cmos battery), return the battery, close the PC and turn the system ON. This resets all bios settings including the internal clock.

[EggyJ]

1 minute ago, 191x7 said:

The easiest way to do this, on most motherboards, is to turn off the PC and unplug, open the side panel, take the battery out for a few minutes (the CR2032 cmos battery), return the battery, close the PC and turn the system ON. This resets all bios settings including the internal clock.

Is there a way i can do it through software?

[Ben17]

3 minutes ago, EggyJ said:

can you explain how i can do that on a asus motherboard

go into the bios and choose the reset option it should be in the location where the save chages and reset is choose that select save changes and reset

or just take out the battery for a few minutes.

 

Just now, 191x7 said:

The easiest way to do this, on most motherboards, is to turn off the PC and unplug, open the side panel, take the battery out for a few minutes (the CR2032 cmos battery), return the battery, close the PC and turn the system ON. This resets all bios settings including the internal clock.

Thanks for that info that you could it that way also 

[Ben17]

Just now, EggyJ said:

Is there a way i can do it through software?

no you cant reset the bios through software

[191x7]

1 minute ago, EggyJ said:

Is there a way i can do it through software?

Nope.

 

There might be a clear cmos button or jumper, but there's no software to do it.

 

Edit: flashing the bios, on most motherboards, does a type of a reset, but I can't recommend doing it with wrongly configured RAM (or abd RAM) since any bios flash interruption or corruption could cause problems similar to bricking the board.

[EggyJ]

1 minute ago, Ben17 said:

go into the bios and choose the reset option it should be in the location where the save chages and reset is choose that select save changes and reset

or just take out the battery for a few minutes.

 

Thanks for that info that you could it that way also 

ok thanks will try

[EggyJ]

17 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

The easiest way to do this, on most motherboards, is to turn off the PC and unplug, open the side panel, take the battery out for a few minutes (the CR2032 cmos battery), return the battery, close the PC and turn the system ON. This resets all bios settings including the internal clock.

i remove the cmos Battery nothing happened same as a normal boot up

[Analog]

1 hour ago, EggyJ said:

i remove the cmos Battery nothing happened same as a normal boot up

Normally there is a setting in the BIOS to disable the integrated gpu or at least to cap the amount of system memory reserved for it. 

[EggyJ]

8 minutes ago, Analog said:

Normally there is a setting in the BIOS to disable the integrated gpu or at least to cap the amount of system memory reserved for it. 

The Asus bio is really bad. I've been going through the bios trying to look for option similar to that but no answers

[SkilledRebuilds]

I've encountered this once or twice, and the usual steps above can cure it..

Once time however, a reinstall of windows cured it completely,.. HW reserved the extra 4GB was now 86MB,..after all previous attempts failed...
As it didnt take too long, i didnt mind, but if you are less keen, put it on ur mind, but the backburner until hopefully another fix can sort it as no1 wants to reinstall so much stuff..

[SkilledRebuilds]

2 minutes ago, EggyJ said:

The Asus bio is really bad. I've been going through the bios trying to look for option similar to that but no answers

Removing the iGPU from being loaded is sometimes called surroundView or multiView and hardly mentions iGPU specifically... just multimonitor enable or disable in many descriptions... (Disable it is the advice given)
 

The BIOS should also have default hotkeys for resetting to optimized defaults....(hit F1 in your BIOS area, it may show a list of hotkeys)
(then you set your boot drive, ram speeds, and go from there)

[EggyJ]

Just now, SkilledRebuilds said:

Removing the iGPU from being loaded is sometimes called surroundView or multiView and hardly mentions iGPU specifically... just multimonitor enable or disable in many descriptions... (Disable it is the advice given)
 

ok I'll see

[EggyJ]

1 minute ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Removing the iGPU from being loaded is sometimes called surroundView or multiView and hardly mentions iGPU specifically... just multimonitor enable or disable in many descriptions... (Disable it is the advice given)
 

also in the Asus Bios theres no Chipset Configuration do you reckon it will be in a different name?

[SkilledRebuilds]

1 minute ago, EggyJ said:

also in the Asus Bios theres no Chipset Configuration do you reckon it will be in a different name?

Whats ur Motherboard Model number...
Asus .............. on the box/bios?

[EggyJ]

5 minutes ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Whats ur Motherboard Model number...
Asus .............. on the box/bios?

[SkilledRebuilds]

9 minutes ago, EggyJ said:

Double check on your motherboards website in the support section for CPU/RAM compatibility list.
You WANT TO FIND YOUR RAM ON THIS LIST to ensure zero issues.

 

Just checking google quickly,.. ALL HW Reserved issues found so far,.. caused by RAM and Board,....swapping around and rebooting helps some,.. but others just outright are not 100% compatible and show HW-Reserved.
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/half-ram-in-hardware-reserve.3315470/
 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/7h957e/how_i_resolved_ryzens_only_half_memory_available/

 

CPUZ/Various programs should show you the Memory INFO for EACH stick....(one of them, two of them, may be different from the others, causing this stuff)