Hi everyone,
I've run into this one problem recently. I did notice for a while that my PC was quite slow at times even though it should not be, and today I saw that there is 4.1 GB of memory reserved for hardware somehow. This was not present in the past, I'm quite sure of that.
As you can see now, there is about 500 400 too 600 MB available, which is sort of okay-ish if I'm not doing anything, but playing games I'm definitely noticing a big drop in PC performance.
I don't know how long this has been happening though.
I've tried the following: - exchange the positions of RAM sticks, change the order from first and third slot to second and forth, unplug the PSU and plug it back in and then reseat memory sticks. I also did windows memory diagnostic which showed no problems, did sfc /scannow (heard it helped someone) but again didn't show any issues.
My build is:
Corsair cx 460 psu
ASUS M5A97 r2.0 mobo
MSI GTX 970 gpu
AMD FX-8320 cpu
Transcend DDR3 4gb x2
Both of the ram sticks which are the same, are compatible with my motherboard, I've checked that when I bought them. They worked perfect for a long time.
Can anyone help me fix it please? anything I did wrong? Perhaps something to do with BIOS? Could my new GPU be the reason of that? I've only gotten this GTX 970 recently, but I feel this has been an issue a bit longer even though I can't say for sure.
Thanks in advance. For any more information please ask.
I've run into this one problem recently. I did notice for a while that my PC was quite slow at times even though it should not be, and today I saw that there is 4.1 GB of memory reserved for hardware somehow. This was not present in the past, I'm quite sure of that.
As you can see now, there is about 500 400 too 600 MB available, which is sort of okay-ish if I'm not doing anything, but playing games I'm definitely noticing a big drop in PC performance.
I don't know how long this has been happening though.
I've tried the following: - exchange the positions of RAM sticks, change the order from first and third slot to second and forth, unplug the PSU and plug it back in and then reseat memory sticks. I also did windows memory diagnostic which showed no problems, did sfc /scannow (heard it helped someone) but again didn't show any issues.
My build is:
Corsair cx 460 psu
ASUS M5A97 r2.0 mobo
MSI GTX 970 gpu
AMD FX-8320 cpu
Transcend DDR3 4gb x2
Both of the ram sticks which are the same, are compatible with my motherboard, I've checked that when I bought them. They worked perfect for a long time.
Can anyone help me fix it please? anything I did wrong? Perhaps something to do with BIOS? Could my new GPU be the reason of that? I've only gotten this GTX 970 recently, but I feel this has been an issue a bit longer even though I can't say for sure.
Thanks in advance. For any more information please ask.