RAM 10 gig's only 8.9 usable

[Pendragen]

I just build a nice computer With a VERY nice MSI board and i installed 10 gigs of ram "a 2 gig stick and an 8 gig stick" and in windows and in Ubuntu i am only showing as usable 8.9 gigs?? why.. do i have to change a setting in my BIOS?

 

[kanewolf]

Does your board have on-board video? That could be where the memory went.

 

[Pendragen]

Does your board have on-board video? That could be where the memory went.

Yes it does
its a MSI A78M-E35 with a AMD A10 7700K CPU