Installed RAM/Total Physical not matching

[Amaze904]

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Hello- I've been beating my head against the wall over this for sometime now and can not seem to come to a conclusion as to why this is happening.

Hardware;
Asus Crosshair Formula V
AMD 8350 FX
Patriot Viper Black edition 1866 x16 GB (x2 8GB)
7970 OC edition Gigabyte
1000W OCZ PSU

Windows 10 64bit

Ok; so whats going on is that I have 16 GB installed and windows acknowledges this- however it only reads 7.95 as total physical memory

Things I have tried;
MEMTEST64 - no errors
CHKDSK- no errors

Enabling Memory remapping in BIOS
Enable max memory in MSCONFIG

none of these things have fixed this issue and I have grown weary of what this could be.

I game alot on this computer and I believe this is root of some recent issues I have been experiencing; after about 20 minutes of gameplay- I drop from a solid 60+ fps to 0 momentarily and then it resumes- a simple reboot fixes this everytime- though after another 20 minutes or so I have to reboot again- this is where I seem to think RAM is causing the issue as it may not be enough being utilized? or is not dumping properly

Also, not sure if it is worth mentioning- but I have a paging file setup on another HDD at around 16GB

Thank you for any help with this- it is much appreciated

 

[Amaze904]

Already did- i cant open msconfig from cmd and it wont revert the changes i made

 

[Rogue Leader]

Already did- i cant open msconfig from cmd and it wont revert the changes i made

So you removed the BIOS settings and when you boot the PC you are met with the Bad Config info and a command prompt?

Do you have Windows 10 installation media?

 

[Amaze904]

Or rather i dont know how-

 

[Amaze904]

No media to work with- upgraded from 7

 

[Rogue Leader]

No media to work with- upgraded from 7

Do you have another PC and a USB thumb drive you can access and download this and make a Windows 10 Install USB:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

 

[Karadjgne]

Pull the plug, pull the cmos battery, count to 20, put battery back in, start boot hit F8, boot last known good configuration.

 

[Amaze904]

No i dont- so now i gave to reinstall windows?

There isnt a cmd for editing msconfig memory options?

 

[Rogue Leader]

No i dont- so now i gave to reinstall windows?

There isnt a cmd for editing msconfig memory options?

No we want to use the install media to do a system repair.

I would try what karadjgne just suggested but it may not work. Worth a shot and won't hurt anything.

If you can;t access windows interface itself msconfig can't help you via command prompt.

 

[Amaze904]

Im not getting windows screen- i get boot manager from my mobo when i press f8 which doesnt have "last known good config"

 

[SgtScream]

Amaze904, if you upgraded your pc from windows 7 to windows 10, there's a good chance you cannot use your windows 7 discs for a startup repair.
If you have another computer with the same version of windows 10, you can burn a bootable system repair disc using the link below:
http://www.howtogeek.com/131907/how-to-create-and-use-a-recovery-drive-or-system-repair-disc-in-windows-8/
Boot to this disc then click on advanced options to initiate an automatic repair.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Im not getting windows screen- i get boot manager from my mobo when i press f8 which doesnt have "last known good config"

Did you try automatic repair from there?

 

[Amaze904]

Yes i tried auto repair- im about to find another pc to get a disc in a minute

 

[Rogue Leader]

Yes i tried auto repair- im about to find another pc to get a disc in a minute

Ok and System restore has no restore points you said, right? Did you try Startup Settings?

 

[Amaze904]

Yea i did and no points-
I also tried
Enable safe mode
Disable auto restart on failure

 

[Rogue Leader]

Yea i did and no points-
I also tried
Enable safe mode
Disable auto restart on failure

Press F10 and then choose launch recovery environment

Let me know when you get there

 

[Amaze904]

F10 doesnt do anything - still a bluescreen

 

[Rogue Leader]

F10 doesnt do anything - still a bluescreen

When you are in that Startup Settings list, and you hit F10, you don't get another listing with a choice "Launch recover environment"?

 

[Amaze904]

No it doesnt

And i guess i cant make a usb bootable because for some reason my 8gb thumb drive only is registering 43mb

Im about to loose my ******** mind

 

[Rogue Leader]

In that menu select troubleshoot, what do you see?

 

[Amaze904]

Reset this pc and adv options

 

[Rogue Leader]

Reset this pc and adv options

There is no option that says "Refresh this PC" ?

 

[Amaze904]

No

 

[Rogue Leader]

Ok click Advanced options what do you see?

 

[Amaze904]

System restore- no points
System image recovery- no img
Startup repair-didnt work
Cmd pmt
Start up settings
Go back to previous build

 

[Amaze904]

Ok had to use another computer to use windows partition manager to reformat the usb drive

Win 10 tool is installing it atm-