Hardware reserved memory

[Cavendish1999]

Hi, I'm experiencing an issue where 16.1GB of my 32GB is being displayed as hardware reserved. Up until recently, all 32GB was working fine. I have tried putting the dimms in different slots on my mother board, and even removing 2 sticks. But when only 16GB is installed, 8GB becomes hardware reserved. I have tried registry edits, resetting the UEFI bios and unchecking the box in msconfig advanced boot settings. The only change that has seen any effect was disabling memory hole remapping in the bios, but this reserved another GB for hardware. Does anyone have a solution to this?

 

My system specifications:

32GB DDR3 1333mHz

Asus M5a97 LE R2.0

AMD 8350

Powercolor R9 270x

Kingston V300 120GB (boot drive)

Kingston V300 480GB (Mass storage)

Corsair H55

USB 3.0 PCIe card

Windows 10 pro

[SLAYR]

Have you tried reinstalling windows, it could be an issue with that.

[Chezpuf]

Have you tried running memcheck?

[Cavendish1999]

I've restored an older system image of windows (10 to 8.1), but I was hoping to avoid a fresh install if possible. MemCheck says I only have 16284mb of memory

[agent_x007]

If you install each individual 8GB module seperate (ie. one stick at the time), does Windows/BIOS/UEFI show 8GB as available ?