Question 16.1GB of my ram is hardware reserved, help?

[ndaraujo]

I bought 2 sets of 2x8gb of ram and was installing it and noticed that no matter what i do or how i install it, i will always have 16.1gb of hardware reserved space.

I am not a genius what so ever in this field, so any help will help.

I have spent easily 12+ hours in the past two days trying everything i can find online and I have not been able to figure this out.

List of things i have tried:

- Removed all the sticks, removed PSU, removed battery and installed ram one at a time. Only the first stick alone has no hardware reserved space
- I have update BIOS
- I have tried the ram sticks in many different spots
- MS config
- registry editor

I have probably done other things but I don't remember cause I am mentally exhausted now trying to figure this out.

This is a link to the PC i built a few years ago: ( I updated the correct ram i just bought)
https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/ndaraujo/saved/cvQ7TW

Running windows 11

Any help would be greatly greatly greatly appreciated!

 

[punkncat]

Hardware reserved doesn't really mean it is completely unavailable. It is earmarked for other things like graphics, page, and such. Is this causing some manner of issue with your system, or you just saw it and focused in as if so?

 

[ndaraujo]

i like to watch multiple sports at once, or play a video game and have a stream/sports game on the 2nd screen. I used to always be able to do this no issue. Recently I cant and just noticed my pc cant handle multiple things at once. Decided to jump from 16gb to 32gb of ram, but the 16.1 is reserved.

I used to only have 16gb before. I am not sure if 8.1gb was reserved before, but now when i try to use my old ram sticks, i can only get 7.9 with the rest being reserved. I am not sure if this was the case before as I never checked as I had no issues

 

[SkyNetRising]

Running windows 11
Any help would be greatly greatly greatly appreciated!

Can you show screenshots from ?

Resource Monitor - memory tab and​

msconfig32 - Boot/Advanced options​

(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[kanewolf]

I bought 2 sets of 2x8gb of ram and was installing it and noticed that no matter what i do or how i install it, i will always have 16.1gb of hardware reserved space.

I am not a genius what so ever in this field, so any help will help.

I have spent easily 12+ hours in the past two days trying everything i can find online and I have not been able to figure this out.

List of things i have tried:

- Removed all the sticks, removed PSU, removed battery and installed ram one at a time. Only the first stick alone has no hardware reserved space
- I have update BIOS
- I have tried the ram sticks in many different spots
- MS config
- registry editor

I have probably done other things but I don't remember cause I am mentally exhausted now trying to figure this out.

This is a link to the PC i built a few years ago: ( I updated the correct ram i just bought)
https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/ndaraujo/saved/cvQ7TW

Running windows 11

Any help would be greatly greatly greatly appreciated!

Your post is EXACTLY why matched sets of RAM are sold. Your two sets are conflicting with each other. You might be able to manually set the timing and voltage so that the RAM will all play nice. Only tweaking and testing will say for sure.

 

[punkncat]

How full are, what is free space on your storage and OS drive(s)?

 

[ndaraujo]

Can you show screenshots from ?

Resource Monitor - memory tab and​

msconfig32 - Boot/Advanced options​

(upload to imgur.com and post link)

https://imgur.com/a/74UHENQ

View: https://imgur.com/a/74UHENQ


Thank you in advance

 

[ndaraujo]

Your post is EXACTLY why matched sets of RAM are sold. Your two sets are conflicting with each other. You might be able to manually set the timing and voltage so that the RAM will all play nice. Only tweaking and testing will say for sure.

How i said it might have been confusing.

I bought the exact same set twice.

Ordered two of these below:

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B015FXXBW0?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Thank you

 

[USAFRet]

I bought the exact same set twice.

That is still "mixing".

RAM only counts when sold as a set.

 

[ndaraujo]

That is still "mixing".

RAM only counts when sold as a set.

Ahh, okay. Understood

I have tried using only 1 set (2x 8gb) and get 8.1GB hardware reserved. I can never get the full 16gb or close to it.

 

[kanewolf]

Ahh, okay. Understood

I have tried using only 1 set (2x 8gb) and get 8.1GB hardware reserved. I can never get the full 16gb or close to it.

You have probably lost which two DIMMs were a set. Take out one DIMM and replace with one of the two which ere not installed. Check again. If still not 16GB, swap in the final DIMM. You need to get back to a factory matched set.

 

[SkyNetRising]

- I have update BIOS

Which version did you update BIOS to?
Try updating to latest non-beta version.