I have 8gb of ram 2 4gb sticks

Sam_141

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and when i put both sticks in and look in bios it says i have 6000 or so MB of memory size but when i load into windows it says i have 8 GB installed but 2.1 is hardware reserved 5.9 available
 

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I have msi a78m-e35 motherboard
2*4GB sticks of Gskill rip Jawz ram
AMD athlon x4 760k
gigabyte gtx 660 oc edition
cx 430w psu
and when i put both sticks in and look in bios it says i have 6000 or so mb of memory size but when i load into windows it says i have 8GB installed but 2.1 is hardware reserved 5.9 available
 

Sam_141

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yeah but ive seen people with almost this same set up without the ram problem
 

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MERGED QUESTION
Question from Sam_141 : "I have 2 4gb sticks of GSkill Ripjaws Ram"

one stick of my ram works fine but i tried the second stick without the first stick in and im only getting 1.9gb usable ram and 2.1gb is hardware reserved what can i do to fix this also i have used cpu-z it says that it a 4gb stick