- Oct 7, 2013
- 80
- 0
- 10,640
I know there are countless posts about this. I have looked thru so many and the problem has not been resolved. I never noticed this until recently, after formatting my PC. I only had 4gb usable. I thought that since it's "hardware reserved" that it must be using it but windows just categorizes differently. Though I noticed that when I had trouble runnign a VM I bought two new ram sticks to get 16gb to run virtualizations better. But then I noticed it took 8GB out for hardware reserved, then this was a problem.
So my first step was to go to msconfig. Check/uncheck the maximum ram. No luck.
I tried tweaking my ram settings to slower faster no luck.
I moved my ram around and no luck.
What I did notice was that if I put 2 ram sticks on it's own channel then no problem for those. But as soon as I add anything to the second channel (same color with same stick per color) then it wouldn't add in.
I am fairly certain when I set this computer up I had 8gb before the format.
I AM ON 64 bit windows 10.
My board is: GA-970A-UD3
run adata 2x4gb on same channel and then
the g-skill 2x4gb. I know they work together since I can put them 1 and 1 on different channels and get 8GB.
I'm really stuck here.
Any help is awesome. I think it might be due to a driver issue, since for some reason when I reformated windows 10 it still kept some things. So I will do a clean drive install.
Let me know if there is anything I can try in the meantime.
Thanks!
So my first step was to go to msconfig. Check/uncheck the maximum ram. No luck.
I tried tweaking my ram settings to slower faster no luck.
I moved my ram around and no luck.
What I did notice was that if I put 2 ram sticks on it's own channel then no problem for those. But as soon as I add anything to the second channel (same color with same stick per color) then it wouldn't add in.
I am fairly certain when I set this computer up I had 8gb before the format.
I AM ON 64 bit windows 10.
My board is: GA-970A-UD3
run adata 2x4gb on same channel and then
the g-skill 2x4gb. I know they work together since I can put them 1 and 1 on different channels and get 8GB.
I'm really stuck here.
Any help is awesome. I think it might be due to a driver issue, since for some reason when I reformated windows 10 it still kept some things. So I will do a clean drive install.
Let me know if there is anything I can try in the meantime.
Thanks!
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram