Windows 7 and ram issues

[dmytro]

because one picture says more than a thousand words I will post pics first


Why is windows marking those 2gb of ram as reserved? is there any way that I could undo this? if more info is needed just let me know

 

[Andy2008]

It's probably RAM used by a video card. What card do you have installed?

 

[lucuis]

Integrated GFX?

 

[dark_lord69]

Yeah, are you using onboard video? Is it a laptop?

If you have a video card you should go into the BIOS and disable the integrated graphics. If you don't have a video card and you are just using the port on the motherboard then you are stuck.

 

[sminlal]

Go to Start -> Right-click "Computer" -> Properties.

Look in the right side under "System" and check out the "System Type". If it says "32-bit operating system", then that's the problem. 32-bit versions of Windows can only access 4GB of memory, and it looks like you have about 6GB in your system.

 

[dmytro]

I have a radeon 5850 andy
oh and this is a desktop pc and am running a 64 bit OS check the pictures!
any thoughts :S?

 

[sminlal]

The 4GB cutoff is very suspicious. What kind of CPU and motherboard are you using?

 

[dmytro]

I have a core i7 920 and the motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R

 

[Ijack]

Have a look at this KB article to see if anything is relevant.

 

[dmytro]

today during the after noon I noticed that my system memory was not been reserved... it was fully listing the 6gb of ram on task manager. Now after coming from work I turn my computer on and its marking the 2gb of ram as reserved again =/ thoughts?