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So, i just bought this kit for my desktop and for some reason my windows 7 64-bit installation accuses 4GB for reserved for hardware. Already resetted CMOS on my asrock P55 Pro. Any ideas?

Edit: I read something about reserving memory for onboard graphics, i have a NVidia 9600GT, so I don't think that's the problem. And the bios is detecting both 4GB sticks
 
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Here's an old thread on the topic:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1694156/hardware-reserved-ram-8gb.html
This suggests settings that might alleviate the problem
http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/196224-4-gb-physical-memory-but-1-74-gb-usable.html#post1649304
There's a suggestion that it's shadowing your card's memory; how much memory does your video card have? Can you remove it, use the onboard, and see if the reserved goes down?
Harald7 said something interesting here, but it's pretty old
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/148610-hardware-reserved-screwing-over-my-computer.html
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Here's an old thread on the topic:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1694156/hardware-reserved-ram-8gb.html
This suggests settings that might alleviate the problem
http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/196224-4-gb-physical-memory-but-1-74-gb-usable.html#post1649304
There's a suggestion that it's shadowing your card's memory; how much memory does your video card have? Can you remove it, use the onboard, and see if the reserved goes down?
Harald7 said something interesting here, but it's pretty old
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/148610-hardware-reserved-screwing-over-my-computer.html
 
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