Please Help! RAM Not Clearing!

[Zangtetzu]

So I am currently running a i7-6700K with 16GB (2x8GB) of G. Skills Ripjaw V DDR4 2400MHz RAM. I am having the issue where my RAM is not clearing. It just keeps piling up as I use the computer throughout the day. When I turn off the computer for the night, the amount in use that I end with is the amount in use immediately on start up in the morning.

I have tried turning off the computer and removing the power cable and letting it sit, which didn't work. I also tried taking out the RAM and inserting it back into the same DIMMs after 5 minutes, which it didn't work either. They all gave me the same 10.4GB out of 16GB in use right on start up.

The only thing that seemed to clear it was doing a reset though Windows 10's settings while keeping my personal files. However, the issue came back, and I can't just keep doing clean resets of my computer.

This computer has only been built and running for 3 days and I haven't torrented anything or been on any sketchy websites on this computer whatsoever, so its hard to believe that there is malware on this computer.

Please help! I just want to have a computer that functions for the most part flawlessly! 🙁

 

[Tradesman1]

Sounds like you may have a lot of things loading at startup, did you use the install disk for the mobo drivers? What mobo and CPU?

 

[SpeedEnforcedByAircraft]

RAM clears out every time the computer is shut off; by nature it is volatile. You probably have installed a ton of programs that are chewing up your memory, or one of them is having a memory leak.

 

[Zangtetzu]

Sounds like you may have a lot of things loading at startup, did you use the install disk for the mobo drivers? What mobo and CPU?

I disabled all of the junk that occurs on startup. Also, I am running a Intel Core i7-6700K on an MSI Z170a GAMING M7. I used the install disks for the mobo drivers, and I think that that may be the issue, but I can't figure out how to update those drivers. Because I just created a restore point to test to see if the RAM would clear after a system restore, and it did. Also, before I reinstalled the mobo drivers from the CD, I wasn't having an issue, granted I only tested that for a day.

 

[Zangtetzu]

RAM clears out every time the computer is shut off; by nature it is volatile. You probably have installed a ton of programs that are chewing up your memory, or one of them is having a memory leak.

But that's the problem. It is supposed to clear after a restart, but it is not. I think it might be the drivers that come on the MSI CD for the mobo. Because after I did a system restore through Windows, it deleted my Intel Chipset drivers that were installed through MSI's mobo CD, and it seemed to be working fine, granted I only tested that for a day.

 

[Tradesman1]

Sounds like you may have a lot of things loading at startup, did you use the install disk for the mobo drivers? What mobo and CPU?

I disabled all of the junk that occurs on startup. Also, I am running a Intel Core i7-6700K on an MSI Z170a GAMING M7. I used the install disks for the mobo drivers, and I think that that may be the issue, but I can't figure out how to update those drivers. Because I just created a restore point to test to see if the RAM would clear after a system restore, and it did. Also, before I reinstalled the mobo drivers from the CD, I wasn't having an issue, granted I only tested that for a day.

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You can get latest drivers from the mobo web site for your particular mobo, as mentioned you if you used the disk, it prob also loaded a bunch of junk from the manufacturer

 

[cst1992]

Congratulations. You have the world's fastest SSD.

Seriously though, it just doesn't work like that. You must have a problem with something you recently installed, after you made that restore point. You could look at all the software you installed one by one, or if it's a driver, roll back to a previous version.