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  1. My pc is reserving half my ram and i'm at the point of wanting to throw my pc at the wall,...


    My pc is reserving half my ram and I've looked up and tried all these "solutions" and none of them have worked. I have tried changing "virtual memory" to "no paging file", gone into msconfig and made sure the "maximum memory" box was unchecked, gone in regedit and changed that weird value to one, made sure they were slotted correctly, they're in my primary slots, no dust or anything, the only thing I haven't done is go back to my old version of bios but for some reason it wont let me downgrade. I have a gigabyte b450m ds3h motherboard, 32gb of corsair ramas well as two 8gb A-data ram to give

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    miles savage, Dec 2, 2022
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  2. scottdeto Win User

    Half of RAM 'Hardware Reserved'

    I have 32GB of RAM installed and half is "hardware reserved" by Windows. I've tried every suggestion I can find, including moving the modules around to different slots. My MB does not have onboard graphics.

    Specs:
    • Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-AX370M-DS3H (BIOS on latest firmware)
    • CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X (upgraded from 1700x and it didn't help)
    • RAM: Corsair VENGEANCE® LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 DRAM 2400MHz C16 Memory Kit
    • GPU: Nvidia RTX-2060 Super


    The BIOS, Windows, CPUZ and HWInfo all show 32GB installed and both slots used, but Windows says "Hardware Reserved: 16.1GB".

    This was occurring on Windows 10. I am currently running Windows 11 (beta channel) and it didn't help. I also upgraded my CPU from a Ryzen 7 1700 with no change.

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    scottdeto, Dec 2, 2022
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  3. Bree Win User
    Half of RAM 'Hardware Reserved'

    According to your motherboard's manual (page 10) you should be using slots ddr4_1 and ddr4_2

    https://download.gigabyte.com/FileLi...70m-ds3h_e.pdf

    It would also be worth checking the bios settings for memory suit the memory you are using (page 24 onwards).
     
    Bree, Dec 2, 2022
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  4. MisterEd Win User

    My pc is reserving half my ram and i'm at the point of wanting to throw my pc at the wall,...

    Half of RAM 'Hardware Reserved'

    Run msconfig
    Select Boot tab
    Select Advanced options
    Make sure Maximum memory is unchecked


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    MisterEd, Dec 2, 2022
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