8gb ram but only 4gb usable, tried everything I can think of

CiaranG99

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Hi,
So earlier I noticed that my ram was only using 4gb of the 8gb and it was only running at 800mhz, I don't know what is causing this as I have tried everything I can think of and everything that google has been telling me. Nothing in my bios is limiting it, I messed around with the page file, Removed and added the Ram, Reset windows (few other things I am forgetting) and none of this has worked. It says that 4gb of Ram has been reserved but I can't find a way to unreserve it.

My Specs:
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 R5
Samsung Evo 860 500GB SSD
GTX 1060 6GB
AMD FX-8370
Corsair VS550
Windows 10 64 Bit

The RAM is just some random HP Ram that I never swapped out, really hoping its not dead as the full 8gb gets picked up by both windows and my bios.

I have tried everything I can think of to fix this but it has done nothing so any help is appreciated.
 

CiaranG99

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its 64 bit, I should probably have put that in the post my bad. I ran the windows diagnostic tool (memtest wouldn't work for some reason) and there were no errors.
 

CiaranG99

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mb bios is the newest one, the reserver is off and ill go check if there is any 990 drivers I Haven't downloaded

 

crapyahmad

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Try this
type system configuration in the search bar
then go to Boot tab and click on the operating system you are running,
then go to advanced options and uncheck maximum memory and click ok then apply then ok and restart the pc
hope i helped.
 

CiaranG99

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already tried that before brother and it done nada, I appreciate you trying to help tho :)