Hardware Reserved RAM

[AdityaSaraf]

Specs:
Ryzen 5 1600

MSI GTX1050ti

16gb (8x2) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4

Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 MoBo

BIOS F42d

 

I recently noticed that I was getting worse performance in games, when I tried to locate the issue in Task Manager I found out that only 8 gigs of RAM is available to the system and the other 8 appears as hardware reserved.

This wasn't the case a couple of weeks ago.
I have tried all the solutions I found online, changing the clearmemoryonboot registry to 1, unchecking checkboxes in advanced boot options in msconfig, physically reseating RAM trying one stick at a time, one slot at a time.

All 4 slots are working with 1 stick in, same for the other stick of memory. I am not sure what I can do, BIOS shows 16 gigs, I dont have an iGPU so that's not taking up my RAM either. I have physcially tried to clean the memory sticks and slots as well just to make sure that the contacts aren't dirty. I have done everything including updating the BIOS to the latest one. the only thing thats left to do is to reinstall windows and that's something I wish it doesnt come down to.

 

Any help is appreciated.


Edit: Apparently for some reason, one channel of memory is acting weird, either a CPU or more likely a motherboard issue, whenever I populate channel A with one stick, and nothing in Channel B it works, but as soon as I add the other stick to Channel B, it shows up as hardware reserved. If I add both sticks to Channel A on the other hand, I get No POST. So, I found out that putting my RAM in slots B1 and B2 works for me, I get all 16gb RAM as detected and not reserved in windows.

Edited March 2, 2022 by AdityaSaraf
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