I have built a new PC and now have installed Windows 10. Upon further inspection in the System page, of my 8GB of memory, only 3.94GB is "usable". Looking at Resource Monitor, I have 4139MB of "Hardware Reserved" memory. I would like to clear this up so I can use all 8GB. I have tried finding something in my BIOS, but I cannot find anything to change. I have also tried msconfig.exe, unchecking the box for maximum memory. Also checked CPU for bent pins, Nothing has worked. System Specs: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Rev 4.0 AMD FX-6300 @ 3.50GHz 8GB G.Skill Sniper 500GB Samsung 850 EVO 2x ASUS Radeon R9 270 OC Edition I have tried using Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 and have still not fixed this. All of them are 64 bit OS's. My BIOS shows that I have 8GB installed, as does Windows. Help pls.

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By BurnedGPU
August 11, 2015 in Troubleshooting

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Go to solution Solved by BurnedGPU, August 11, 2015

100% memory compatibility issue

Yup. http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Memory/memory_ga-990fxa-ud3.pdf

Posted August 11, 2015

Kewl, did you even read the post?

We're talking about Task Manager which accounts for Double Data Rate and displays 'effective frequency'

duh... maybe u should read

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