This is actually my friends computer so I'm not 100 percent sure on all of the details. I built the computer for him a few years ago and off the top of my head it is:
fx-6300
Radeon 7850
MSI Motherboard
Windows 7 x64
16GB RAM (4 x4)
It was initially built with 8 gigs of ram, I don't have the exact model numbers on me but I can get that. The computer had no issues until he decided to upgrade to 16gb. He matched the model numbers and bought 2 more 4gig sticks of identical ram. I put it in for him and all was well. The other day his PC froze and when he turned it back on it said 16 (12 usable), with 4 gigs being hardware reserved. We updated chipset drivers and restarted and it said 16 (8 usable) with 8 hardware reserved. Now, consistently, every time we restart the computer it switches back and forth between reserving 4 and then 8 gigs.
This just popped up out of the blue. We have made sure that there isn't a max ram setting and searched the BIOS, which also recognizes all 16, but found nothing indicating a limit of any kind.
fx-6300
Radeon 7850
MSI Motherboard
Windows 7 x64
16GB RAM (4 x4)
It was initially built with 8 gigs of ram, I don't have the exact model numbers on me but I can get that. The computer had no issues until he decided to upgrade to 16gb. He matched the model numbers and bought 2 more 4gig sticks of identical ram. I put it in for him and all was well. The other day his PC froze and when he turned it back on it said 16 (12 usable), with 4 gigs being hardware reserved. We updated chipset drivers and restarted and it said 16 (8 usable) with 8 hardware reserved. Now, consistently, every time we restart the computer it switches back and forth between reserving 4 and then 8 gigs.
This just popped up out of the blue. We have made sure that there isn't a max ram setting and searched the BIOS, which also recognizes all 16, but found nothing indicating a limit of any kind.
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