Memory reserved for hardware?

aonor

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I realized my computer was getting slower this week. When I check the RAM, it was that only 2 GB was available and 14 GB set aside for hardware. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Specs:

Asus P9X79 Pro

Corsair Dominator 1866 Mhz 16GB

Windows 8 Pro 64-bit

tried
- restoring factory defaults
- clearing cmos
- switched placements
 

aonor

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I used Task Manager and went to performance. It shows the amount of memory being used.