Hardware Reserved Memory, that shouldn't be?

[Charles Kolczak]

I just built a new system, made up of:

Gigabyte ga-f2a88x-d3h motherboard
AMD a5800k processor
2 sticks of 4GB DDR3 1600 G. Skill Sniper RAM
Windows 7 32-bit

Everything boots up great, the bios recognizes the RAM, everything looks good. I expect the OS to only recognize 4GB when it loads up, but it says I have 2.263 GB available. When I pull up the Resource Monitor, it's showing 5929MB is Hardware Reserved, 2263MB is available, with 8192MB installed. Obviously running an APU, I expect some of it to be reserved, so I checked that, and set it to 512MB, which must be the default because nothing changed. I've tried to change with channels the ram is seated in, using every combination I can think of. For some reason, it's reserving about 4GB that I don't think it should be. Every website or QVL that I've found says that the memory and mb are compatible. Does anyone have any other ideas?

 

[Emerald]

why don't you use the 64-bit version of the OS?

you can use the same product key.

 

[V1ctor89]

That is because you are using a 32bit windows which can't allocate more than a maximum of 3,25 gb ram. You must install a 64bit windows in order to benefit from all the 8gb installed.