Memory Remapping or something else?

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NovisMortis

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In advanced system details or system information, it says 5.94 gb available of physical memory. I have 8 gb adata xpg v1 ram, 2 dimms 4 gb each running at 1600mhz and 11 timings i believe. I have an i 3 4130, msi 750 ti with 2 gb gddr5, msi p33 v2 mobo, 120 gb pny optima ssd, 1 tb western digital blue hdd, and a 500 gb wd blue hdd, i have an evga 600b psu, and all in a source 210. I was wondering if this saying 5.94 gb is because of memory remapping from my gpu memory or something else. any information is useful. I dont have max memory checked in msconfig. I would like to see something more close to 7.9 usable, and what exactly does memory remapping do? Thanks a lot in advance. I always love the feedback i get from this forum even the trolls.
 
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The memory hole remap feature will remap SDRAM that's been displaced by the PCI MMIO region to a location above the 4GiB barrier. If present, it should be enabled. However, it's rare for PCI to gobble up that much MMIO space. It looks to me like 2GiB is unmapped, which tells me that one of the DIMMs may have a faulty rank.

Here's what I want you to do:

Take out one of the DIMMs and boot the PC. Make a note of how much memory is initialized. Then, swap the DIMM for the other one and repeat the process. If one DIMM maps 4GiB, and the other only 2GiB, then the one that maps 2GiB is faulty.
 
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NovisMortis

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The total available physical memory, the number i was asking, was in fact how much physical memory i had left over from what i was using at the time i opened the detailed system information. and on idle with only a few things open i use ~2gb ram. 2 and 5.94 = ~8. if i open a lot of crap up and refresh the thing it shows less ram available. What was throwing me off was that it wasnt refreshing automatically. I dont have any dead ranks nor anything else. The wording and presentation of the information on that system detail window was kinda ambiguous of what the information was showing. but knowing this clears it up. The total available physical memory is how much you have left over. The total available virtual memory is how much you have installed. Thanks for the response though. And i appologize for taking so long to figure something so simple out.
 
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