I have 16GB of ram installed in my system, and only 8GB are being used by windows. The rest are "Hardware Reserved"? This seems to be a very common problem, but I haven't found a solution that works yet.
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This is usually a problem with mismatched RAM (eg timing). Windows can see but not use all the installed RAM so it marks the unusable RAM as hardware reserved. It may also be a faulty RAM chip, but that's probably less likely.
If you have two 8GB RAM sticks they must be a matched pair, preferably bought together so they are from the same batch. If that's what yours are, then they may be installed in the wrong slots. Check you motherboard manual for the correct positions to use.
Apart from RAM mis match or wrong slots used on motherboard (I myself use 4 DIMMs with non matching timings between the pairs without issue), are you using any form of disk caching application that marks off system RAM to improve disk performance? I would have thought any such app would dynamically allocate/ reserve RAM (the same as Windows does) but I could be mistaken.
Hardware Reserved 8.0GB - check in BIOS, if onboard GPU or GPU emblemed in CPU, do not take it.
You can also try this. Run CMD as admin and copy/paste code, then restart.
Code:bcdedit /deletevalue {current} removememory bcdedit /deletevalue {current} truncatememory bcdedit /deletevalue {default} removememory bcdedit /deletevalue {default} truncatememory
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