HARDWARE RESERVED RAM ISSUE*

[M4kind]

Hello,

I'll keep it short

Problem: I have 5 GB of ram, and I can't use them all. I can use only 3 GB of ram.

Tried: Adjusting Page File size, updating bios, bios (load fail safe defaults), changing ram slots, all options on MSCONFIG, memtest (everything was aokay.)

So, I would rly love ppl to help me out, cuz I have this problem forever. Since I got 64bit Windows, before 64 bit, I had 3gb of ram (added 2+gb).Hope to get help soon!

[AustinKZombie]

Ahh the game killing floor

[M4kind]

Helpp , Killing Floor won't help me

[AustinKZombie]

#1: Go to Run and type msconfig. Once you do this a box will come up and then go to the boot tab. On advanced options on the boot you will find two options, number of processors and max memory. Select the box max memory and it should automatically put the amount of memory installed. Once you reboot it will allocate more memory to your sytem but still hold a bit back for hardware requirements.

#2: You can try Memory Remapping through the BIOS.

#3: Reinstall Windows.

 

 

Found this on tomshardware

 

 

You can try these but they might not work because your on win 8

[M4kind]

DEcobra11

No, I'm not using "iGPU"

Intel Pentium Dual Core e5200 @ 2.5 ghz

Nvidia gtx 275 SOC edition

Cooler master gx lite 600w psu

ram : Corsair Cm2x 1gb

A data - 2gb

Patriot - 2gb

motherboard : Gigabyte EP31-DS3L

and

AustinKZombie

Tryed 1st option, don't know about memory remaping, cuz my bios doesn't have that feature.

[nick99n]

i used to have a bad stick that caused me this problem and a a week after this the pc would not boot if i did not remove
i went to the shop i bought it and it was faulty (they gave me a new one in 10 mins)

[M4kind]

@DEcobra11

 

After I tryed other ram configs, my pc wouldn't boot or I get a random bsod "memory_managment"

I'll try more configs, and let u guys know if it helps...

 

[M4kind]

@DEcobra11

Hey, so I tryed diffrent ram configs

 

1st config - 3 times - 3 bsod's

2nd config - system wont post.

and my own try (removing just the 1gb stick) it show's I have 4gb installed and 4 gb available

Thanks a bunch, now I know what was wrong before