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6GB RAM useable out of 16 GB RAM

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So, I just was enjoying my time gaming and I wanted to play Grand Theft Auto, so, I opened up NVIDIA GeForce Experience and I saw that on my rig there's literally just written 6 GB RAM, I got a little confused so, opened up System Properties (if that's what u call it) and it said:

Installed Memory (RAM) : 16.0 GB (6.00 GB useable)

I headed to YouTube and there was a tutorial, which said that I should do the following steps:

  • Press Win+R & type msconfig32

  • Go to boot & select advanced options

  • Uncheck eh? what was it again??? yeah, the memory limit?

Well, after I did all those steps, I restarted my PC and it didn't solve my problem soooo, what should I do now? 😐

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Try running Windows Memory Diagnostic (Win+R, Enter mdsched.exe into Run).

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If you open your resource monitor through the task manager what does it say? Does it have the rest in standby? If so this is normal behaviour on windows 10.

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Laptop or desktop? Full specs?

Desktop specs:

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1 minute ago, genexis_x said:

Laptop or desktop? Full specs?

Dell Precision T5500

16 GB RAM Installed

Bios A18 (which is the latest)

ummm.... Win 10?
1 TB HDD...

I tried replacing RAM in my gaming PC which I recently bought and it seems that it's working fine but in this pc it doesnt

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1 minute ago, itzbizzz said:

Dell Precision T5500

 

The older Dell workstations had a BIOS issue in which it wouldn't recognize a large chunk of RAM. I know there's a BIOS fix for it, and I think it has to do with a Northbridge setting. I'll see if I can find it, but in the meantime, Googling "T5500 usable RAM" should get you off in the right direction.

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