Windows 10: Hardware Reserved Memory in RAM

I am using a DELL 660s PC, the time I brought it, it had 5.8GB usable out of 6 GB RAM which was onboard. This year I added an SSD and made it my main drive, now I see that it has only 5.6GB usable out of 6 GB RAM, since my workload increased, I increased the RAM to 8GB, but out of this 8GB, only 7.6GB is usable. How can i reduce this hardware reserved memory to 200MB as it was earlier when I brought?

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Hardware reserved memory

Got that Nikola. The error you are getting which is the "hardware reserved" is almost related to BIOS. Since the previous steps did not work, let us check if the steps below will make any difference on the issue:

1. Delete some files that you are no longer using.

2. Re-instate the old BIOS. If it is still not working, install the newer BIOS instead.

3. Check possible issues with the physical RAM. Check whether you have bad memory modules and if standoff cards are used. Make sure that the memory arrangement is correct.

Let us know if there's any changes.

Thank you.

 

Problem about RAM & Hardware reserved. Need advice.

Hi, some similar reports have been posted- if you search for these, ignore those related to using 32bit Windows on >4Gb RAM- that's not your situation of course.

Noted there are differences in the last two CPU-Z reports on your RAM, which may suggest something about that in slot 2.

See e.g.
Hardware reserved memory issue - Windows 10 Forums
on RAM issues.

BIOS update:
I have 24GB installed RAM (7.95 usable) How do I fix this? - Windows 10 Forums

For more such posts, just search for Hardware Reserved

 

Hardware Reserved Memory 5.5GB


If you feel comfortable doing your own system tweaking I would suggest this advice provided on this website: Top 10 Ways to Fix High RAM/CPU Memory Usage after Windows 10 Update | Drive The Life Do perform steps 1(return this registry "VALUE DATA") entry back to 0 after restart)thru 10, exclude step 2, as that is a download that you do not need at this time. After all that
go to trusted site by Black Viper for advice on your win 10 operating system Services configuration for normal ops and set your services according to Mister Vipers suggestions. His website is here: Black Vipers Windows 10 Service Configurations » Black Viper | www.blackviper.com Some of these suggestions if not down properly could render your operating system un-usable, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. However, I have used the advice given here and personally have not caused any problems to my own system and in fact this advice has significantly improved performance and reduced the load on memory to a negligible amount . Best of Luck.

I remember when 256Mb was a lot of ram and you could upgrade to 512 for about 150 bucks (maybe more). Just sayin.