need help with Ram

I have a single stick of 8gb ddr4 ram, but in my system information window it is said that only 4gb are available. When I try changing it in the boot options, It automatically lowers it by 4gb if I put more than 4gb(5gb>1gb, 8gb>4gb) Any way to fix this?
here are some screenshots
https://ibb.co/2s8vXsY
https://ibb.co/BsjrbhQ
https://ibb.co/bNfwPk9
https://ibb.co/jzSKY6t

 

Are you running a 32 bit operating system?

 

no
win 10
64bit
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
System Type x64-based PC

 

fairly normal tho i can't say for sure since mine is fairly old desu

btw if it makes you feel better here is a ram

Spoiler: RAM

desu

 

Likely one of these 3 problems

What's the brand of your ram? Its model number? Price? Where did you buy. You probably got scammed. DDRM?

Or

What's your motherboard? How many ram slots does it have? 4? Did you put it side by side? Is it dual channel or not? Did you put in the wrong slot? Is it compatible?

Or

Probably one of the ram is damaged.

 

UP your OS to 64bit... Clearly having 1 8gb while it only use 4gb

 

I have an ASrock B450 pro mobo, and only one stick of ram. In bios it said that I have 8gb with 7.5 available, but in system information I get this:
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8,00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7,45 GB
Available Physical Memory 2,62 GB
Total Virtual Memory 12,7 GB
Available Virtual Memory 6,45 GB
Page File Space 5,25 GB

 

I am using
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor, 3600 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)

 

Thanks for the ram. But, how is it normal being able to use only 1/3 of ram?

 

Looks like all is fine then. It's normal, since it's doing its job.

 

But it isn't doing it's job tho. When I open resource monitor it says that google uses 2gb of ram and that is 60%

 

if Available Physical Memory is 2.62 out of 7.45, that's roughly 35% left. a simple math shows nothing wrong with any of the percentage shown in your screenshot.





so windows actually did acknowledge you have 8GB of ram installed in your pc, only that it can't use 567MB of it.

if the amount of memory that's available to Windows is less than the amount of installed memory, that's because your computer reserves some memory for its own use, which makes it unavailable to Windows. there could be a lot of factors that leads to this.

btw, one should always go for 2 sticks of ram instead of 1, for modern systems. the performance difference is very noticeable, especially when it comes to gaming.

 

try unchecking max memory in msconfig followed by a reboot

Also have this ram,

 

that is one nice ram. When I first noticed this I had 2gb of ram, then unchecked the max memory and it increased to 4gb

 

Are you running a RAM Disk or any type of RAM caching? I use 4 GB of my memory for a RAM disk to speed up load times in games that I play. If you look at your available memory with RAM caching enabled, it can display behavior similar to what you're experiencing.

 

I never enabled such a thing and this is a completely new build with a fresh install of windows 10 from their official site.
I do have an M.2 ssd but that is irrelevant.

 

i assume you missed my earlier post
https://forum.novelupdates.com/posts/4615703/

normally, Hardware Reserved memory is not managed by windows. 'not managed' as in windows doesn't decide how many was in reserve. but there are some settings you can check first just make sure, before going other routes. (links below)

most often, large Hardware Reserved indicates incompatibilty. other times include old bios, which might be able to be fixed by updating the bios. otherwise, it might just be a setting in bios (try load defaults--save, or optimized default)

https://forum.novelupdates.com/posts/4615703/

 

I was going to say something about windows 10 reserving extra memory to increase performance, but it looks like runsing's explanation makes better sense in your case.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...-windows/ef01712d-f5f5-4a6f-bc39-d3e8380f8a47

 

Will check the BIOS, but the mobo is brand new and also a newer model since it is for AM4 Sockets. Also I don't understand why would windows reserve 4gb of ram and sometimes even more

 

Duh!!
Download more RAM like the rest of us.