Ram issues

[CheeseB0y]

I recently cleaned out my computer of dust and after discovered that over half of my 16GB of DDR3 AMD entertainment series RAM was "hardware reserved" (8.5GB to be exact) and I knew it wasn't one defective stick because each stick was 8GB. I also noticed that it was running at 800MHz when I have it set to 1600MHz. I removed the ram and inserted it again and I managed to get it down to just about 50MB a few days later, but the speed is still half of what it should be. Does anyone know what's going on here? Let me know if you have any more questions please, thank you!   

[CalculuS]

Check the bios and select the correct speed.

[CheeseB0y]

Yeah in the bios it says everything is running how it should but it's only in windows that it tells me this

[CaptainKoda]

opps double post

[CaptainKoda]

I recently cleaned out my computer of dust and after discovered that over half of my 16GB of DDR3 AMD entertainment series RAM was "hardware reserved" (8.5GB to be exact) and I knew it wasn't one defective stick because each stick was 8GB. I also noticed that it was running at 800MHz when I have it set to 1600MHz. I removed the ram and inserted it again and I managed to get it down to just about 50MB a few days later, but the speed is still half of what it should be. Does anyone know what's going on here? Let me know if you have any more questions please, thank you!   Ram Problems.png

what motherboard are you using?

[dragoon20005]

i suspect either RAM problems or your BIOS is going funky

 

reseat the RAM in a different slot

 

also make sure Windows is not limiting the RAM to 8GB

 

look under msconfig

[CheeseB0y]

what motherboard are you using?

MSI 990FXA-GD80 V2

[CheeseB0y]

I've searched the web for solutions to this problem and multiple people have similar issues but none of them seemed to come up with a good solution. At this point I'm not so much worried about the 50MB I'm missing (I probably won't need it anyways) I'm more worried about it running at 800MHz and not 1600MHz. If worst comes to worst I'll order some new memory at some point. I've been wanting to upgrade anyways, but help is still very much appreciated I'd rather keep this running for a while until I can afford a good upgrade. Thanks everyone!

[dragoon20005]

I've searched the web for solutions to this problem and multiple people have similar issues but none of them seemed to come up with a good solution. At this point I'm not so much worried about the 50MB I'm missing (I probably won't need it anyways) I'm more worried about it running at 800MHz and not 1600MHz. If worst comes to worst I'll order some new memory at some point. I've been wanting to upgrade anyways, but help is still very much appreciated I'd rather keep this running for a while until I can afford a good upgrade. Thanks everyone!

what you may see is actually correct 800MHz

 

DDR is 1600MHz

[CheeseB0y]

what you may see is actually correct 800MHz

 

DDR is 1600MHz

What do you mean?

[dragoon20005]

What do you mean?

when you read the RAM speed in many programs

 

what you see is half the actual speed

 

DDR or double data rate will be 1600MHz

[CheeseB0y]

when you read the RAM speed in many programs

what you see is half the actual speed

DDR or double data rate will be 1600MHz

Oh, I think you may be right. If this is true then I feel quite silly for making a big deal over this. Thanks for your help!

[DelusionalSyko]

This is how it's supposed to look. The speed is recognized, 50MB reserved, etc etc