BIOS update changed RAM

Shartify

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It's hardly a big issue, but I performed a BIOS update today, and it apparantly ate a small amount of RAM:

http://i.imgur.com/n31T6Sg.png

As you can see, I've got 8 GB installed, but 7.9 to use. It probably won't make a difference, but it is a bit annoying, so I'd like to fix it if possible.

It also says that I've written 2.0/12.4 GB, and I don't even have that much RAM, so I don't know what that's about either. Any help would be apprechiated.
 

Shartify

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I did re-enable XMP after updating, yes. My RAM is 2 of:
"Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 4GB CL9"
 

Shartify

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It didn't bring back the missing 0.1 GB, but it did bring the written memory down to 7.9. Guess that teaches me that the page file is included in that. Thanks for the suggestion.

Side question, do you know if I should keep a page file when the system drive is a SSD?

Edit: My translation of the task manager is only partial, but the bottom line on the very right says "Reserved by hardware: 55,4 MB". I guess that's where my RAM is sitting. So the motherboard reserves a bit of RAM for itself after the BIOS update, do you think it might be important?