Physical memory> Hardware reserved is 1154MB?

[sabedra211]

why so much? I have 4gb installed and only 2.87 is usable? i have windows 7 home premium 64bit and intel desktop board d915gev. it reads the 4gb but it says 1154mb is reserved for hardware. i am using external audio and video devices? so idk whats going on. any thots? thanks

 

[fair1zfoul]

yeah my computer is doing the same thing, someone told me that the ram you install goes to different places, and you only use a bit of it for personal use, i dont know why or how to change the settings but im taking my computer in soon if i dont get help and ill havea technitian work on it

 

[BrokaToe]

in start menu type msconfig and open that up. Then under the Boot tab, select the Advanced options button and make sure the maximum memory is un ticked.

 

[Motoxrdude]

Maybe its being reserved for your video card?

 

[BrokaToe]

Yah some video cards do require some system memory in order to access the onboard ram on the card. But usually not that much.

 

[tyttebøvs]

Your hardware is fixed at 4GB address space. So you are under the same restrictions as those running a 32bit edition of Windows.

msinfo32/device manager can tell you in detail how the memory addresses are assigned.