live-evil Posted May 27, 2015 Member ID: 267 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 55 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 19 Achievement Points: 538 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 12 Birthday: 08/14/1961 Device: Windows Share Posted May 27, 2015 I have just got a new computer an asus m51bc with 12gb of ram , resource manager says that about 8gb of that is hardware reserved, anyone know how to release this memory.Please, thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaderXI Posted May 28, 2015 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6417 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6494 Achievement Points: 54337 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted May 28, 2015 Asus mobo,s are funny with the type of ram you have... What brand are you using ? The other thing you could try is removing a stick at a time maybe they are in wrong or bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Blackbart Posted May 28, 2015 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Share Posted May 28, 2015 You must have a 32 bit version of Windows...Anything over 4GB isn't recognized in 32 bit versions...http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/how-do-i-free-up-ram-from-the-hardware-reserve/d9fa82f0-45a1-4ade-87f7-36166fe0e993 BUDMAN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
live-evil Posted May 29, 2015 Member ID: 267 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 55 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 19 Achievement Points: 538 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 12 Birthday: 08/14/1961 Device: Windows Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 the os is windows 8.1 64 bit, it has an 8gb stick and a 4gb stick in slots 1 and 3, a2gb radeon r9 graphics card and 2tb hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7Toes Posted May 29, 2015 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 57 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.71 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27249 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Share Posted May 29, 2015 i believe you need to move the 8gig to slot to a different slot because slot 1 and 3 have to have the same size stick and that goes for 2 and 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
live-evil Posted June 2, 2015 Member ID: 267 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 55 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 19 Achievement Points: 538 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 12 Birthday: 08/14/1961 Device: Windows Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Thanks 7toes_ky did what you suggested swapped over the 8gb with the 4gb and now i have just under 8gb usable memory with 4gb reserved. Thanks again.Thanks to everyone else for their suggestions as well, much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny3Time Posted June 3, 2015 Member ID: 20371 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 159 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 306 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 341 Achievement Points: 2727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/19/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 20 Birthday: 06/11/1966 Device: Windows Share Posted June 3, 2015 @@live-evil if you have any windows or gaming stability issues get an exact matching stick (brand/model/size/timings/voltage) of one of the existing ram sticks and have the matching pair populating 1 & 3. It should also help performance even if you have no stability issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
live-evil Posted June 3, 2015 Member ID: 267 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 55 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 19 Achievement Points: 538 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 12 Birthday: 08/14/1961 Device: Windows Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 Thanks for that Marley will try it and let you know how i get on, luckily no stability problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBubbles Posted June 3, 2015 Member ID: 349 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 30 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 821 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 541 Achievement Points: 5195 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 5, 2017 Birthday: 01/27/1971 Share Posted June 3, 2015 (edited) You still have a miss memory configuration if you're still not seeing nearly all of the 12 gigs. i believe you need to move the 8gig to slot to a different slot because slot 1 and 3 have to have the same size stick and that goes for 2 and 4 As long as the latency is the same, ASUS recommends in this scenario that you put both sticks into the same bank. This way the first 4 gigs will pair-up in dual channel mode with the 8 gig stick, and the remaining 4 gigs of the 8 gig stick, gets put into single channel mode. Performance will still be there! @@live-evil, You should still see nearly all the RAM, but you're not? I'm assuming this is still true! I need the exact motherboard model to help you precisely? Located on the motherboard itself! The RAM that came with the system isn't all that important. Asus sold you the system with 12 Gigs of RAM, correct? There is a setting that could cause this in BIOS, or worse, you may have unmatched/ defective memory modules. Temporarily, you could move the two RAM sticks into separate banks. To do this, move the 8 gig stick to slot A1 and the 4 gig to B1. This will get you your 12 gigs of RAM, with a performance hit. Doing this will tell us that the modules are in fact miss matched or defective and of course, the motherboard could be defective too, unlikely! Good luck! Edited June 3, 2015 by MrBubbles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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