4gb out of 8gb is hardware reserved...

[Kenny Dearing]

There are about a million of these post and I cant figure what is wrong -__- I have 8gb of ram installed yet only 3.97 of it is usable, the rest is in hardware reserve.
Here are my specs:
Fx-6300
Gigabyte ga-970a-d3p
G.Skill 4GBx2 DDR3 2133

So I have just tried switching channels on my motherboard with no luck. Their website for support is very poor on the whole memory compatibility department so plz halp!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BysZXCM_TNs3UVl6NXVKT0Eyejg/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BysZXCM_TNs3aDNRY2MyQmEtUXM/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BysZXCM_TNs3RmZlN0pXVXFnaUE/view?usp=sharing

 

[Vic 40]

Hardware reserved in the task manager?

The motherboard,rev 1.0 or 2.0? Look at the left lower corner.
The latest has a pretty recent bios,maybe update it when not having it.

What does it give when adding a little voltage to the ram,like going from 1.5V to 1.55V.You can go up to 1.65V.

 

[Kenny Dearing]

in my bios its It will not let me change the voltage
Rev 2.0 btw

 

[Vic 40]

Try the latest bios.

I will look into the voltages late on,i want to read the manual for that.

 

[Kenny Dearing]

So I have finally fixed this! I have surfed through about 4 different forums, youtube for hours, and read my whole mobo manual. This is how I fixed it when nothing else was working. I went into my bios an turned my ram down to a lower frequency, reseated my cpu, cleaned out all parts with canned air, reseated the ram into a different slot, and prayed to the computer gods. One of those or even a combination seemed to do the trick!

 

[Vic 40]

Good to hear!

 

[Kenny Dearing]

now its back to 4... wtf and computer is randomly crashing ...

 

[Vic 40]

You're using the slots 2+4 counted from the cpu?

You enabled XMP? Can be found in the bios under "MIT"->"Advanced Frequency Settings" You use pretty hoigh speed ram for that cpu so try profile "2".

Look under "Advanced Memory Settings"->" Profile DDR Voltage" to set a different voltage for the ram i.e. set it higher as i said if the XMP doesn't help..Might even need extra voltage to the memory controller,but let's see what this does first.

How about that bios update?