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

 

[Rogue Leader]

Ok so open up command prompt type bcdedit and hit enter, then screen shot it for me

EDIT:
Witht the USB drive if you can get into troubleshoot and can get it to RUn "Refresh my pc" thats what you want. If not go to command prompt and follow above

 

[Amaze904]

Still waiting for tool to finish

 

[Amaze904]

Wouldn't "allowedinmemeorysettings" be the problem handle?

 

[Rogue Leader]

right try this:

bcdedit /deletevalue {default} allowedmemorysettings

Then reboot

if it doesnt work get back to the command prompt and run bcdedit again

 

[Amaze904]

Says the paramater is incorrect

Didnt see an option in trouble shooting for refresh after using the tool

Should i run repair off the tool?

 

[Rogue Leader]

Says the paramater is incorrect

Didnt see an option in trouble shooting for refresh after using the tool

Should i run repair off the tool?

Strange.

EDIT: I messed up the syntax:

bcdedit /deletevalue {default} allowedinmemorysettings

Try repair first and see what happens, if not try this again

 

[Amaze904]

Ok i must have typed it wrong now it says

The element data type specifed is not recognized, or does not apply to the specifed entry
Run "bcdedit /?" For cmd line assistance
Element not found

 

[Amaze904]

Repair failed again witg tool inserted

 

[Rogue Leader]

Ok i must have typed it wrong now it says

The element data type specifed is not recognized, or does not apply to the specifed entry
Run "bcdedit /?" For cmd line assistance
Element not found

See above

 

[Amaze904]

The process co pleted successfully

Blue screen- same error code

 

[Rogue Leader]

The process co pleted successfully

Blue screen- same error code

Ok get back to command prompt and do bcdedit and screenshot for me again

 

[Amaze904]

 

[Rogue Leader]

Ok try this command:

bcdedit /deletevalue {default} truncatememory

Also why is windows your X drive?

 

[Amaze904]

I changed the drive letters a while ago- im attempting repair now after the bcdedit

If it doent fix then i will try second syntax

 

[Amaze904]

Yes i was using win 10 tool from link- i dont have a legit 7 disc atm

 

[Amaze904]

Actually- i have no idea why it is X

The only disc letters i changed were my other mounted drives

 

[Rogue Leader]

Actually- i have no idea why it is X

The only disc letters i changed were my other mounted drives

I feel like its possible that the issue was not the msconfig settings but something else. Anyway try the syntax and go from there

 

[Amaze904]

Well consodering i havent had ANY other issues aside from ram not showing up properly since i built it is pretty highly suggestive

At least no issues that would cause a brick

 

[Rogue Leader]

True, well anyway did repair work? If not try the next syntax I sent

 

[Amaze904]

Its still attempting repairs its been like this for a solid 10 minutes idk if its hung or what

 

[Rogue Leader]

Its still attempting repairs its been like this for a solid 10 minutes idk if its hung or what

No news is good news. If its doing something thats good.

 

[Amaze904]

Startup repair failed

Attempting sytax now

 

[Amaze904]

Holy smoke batman!!!!

Win login xD

 

[Amaze904]

Ok well thats a start but now wtf

Can not interact with my windows button
And now my ssd has 4gb of space that wasnt there before

 

[Rogue Leader]

Ok well thats a start but now wtf

Can not interact with my windows button
And now my ssd has 4gb of space that wasnt there before

Ok so give windows a minute or two to load. I have no explanation for the SSD issue.

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