More than half of memory occupied by Hardware Reserved

[Prasenjit04bassist]

I upgraded my memory from 4 to 8 recently. At my surprise, my task manager says total memory : 8GB, In use : (about) 970MB, Available : 2GB and Hardware Reserved : 5GB? Like seriously? What is this hardware reserved? My tired of trying out a millions steps, such as unchecking Maximum memory in msconfig under BOOT section. Messing with page file/virtual memory. Editing the regedit (as guiding by some YT videos). The regedit is anyway all in default, as I revert back the numbers as it was before If I don't see any changes.

Please help me with this issue. I'm tired of executing every possible steps. Nothing worked. Yes, BIOS update might be one thing, but is not that easy with my setup. No website to download drivers, my bios doesn't even seem to have options like those of the YouTubers. I'm damn confused.
PLEASE HELP!

MB : LORD ELECTRONICS CO.LTD.LORD
GM45+ICH9+775
INTEL GL40

BIOS : AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INC.
VERSION : 080015
DATE : 12/10/2014

CORE2QUAD Q8400
LAPCARE 2X4GB DDR3 RAM

 

[CaptainCretin]

It is not a fault, it is how the stupid Windows OS uses RAM; my 16GB system has 10.9GB reserved and 2GB free.

 

[Pinhedd]

It is not a fault, it is how the stupid Windows OS uses RAM; my 16GB system has 10.9GB reserved and 2GB free.

It's a fault. Remove your memory, clean it, clean the socket, reseat it.