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I've never actually seen that type of problem on any machine here going back to 3.1/9X! 98SE wouldn't even run with anything over 500mb back then. But this also reminded of Vista's SP1 correcting the lack of accurate memory totals in that older version there.
10 still has some bugs in it to be worked out as any new version would see. Something you have added on right before the problem started would be attributed to some 3rd party clash while in most cases either there's a hardware issue or something in Windows is goofed up royally!
You're not ocing anything are you? That could be another possible source if you have turned things up any like memory timings if not the cpu itself. Have to look at anything and everything at this point.