How to lower hardware reserved in the bios

Codelyoko373

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I want to lower my hardware reserve so i have more ram i can use since most of it's in hardware reserve and from what i've found out, You can only lower it in the bios but the thing is... I can't find a setting to lower the hardware reserve but i guess that's just because i don't really know what it's going to say so i was wondering if anyone knows what the setting should be called and i also have a MSI bios so it looks like this http://images.anandtech.com/doci/5714/MSI%20BIOS%201%20-%20Main.png and even though i didn't really know what the setting would be called, I couldn't really find any Memory settings so if you know what the setting should be called in a MSI bios then that would be great
 

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When memory get labeled as hardware reserved It means windows can see it but can't use it for some reason. It can be caused by bad ram, incompatible memory or configuration. More inforamtion is needed to troubleshoot. Make and model of the motherboard, make and model of the ram that is installed, how the ram is installed(what sticks are in each slot). What OS(32-bit 64-bit, home, pro, enterprise etc).
 

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I have a feeling it's because i have a integrated video card and the ram isn't bad and i have windows 8.1 64 bit
 

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Yes i did a memtest and it recognized 8GB what is how much ram i have installed but only 2.97GB of it is usable and 5153MB are in hardware reserve
 

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8GB is installed and the manufacturer of my motherboard is MSI and the model is FM2-A55M-E33