Hardware reserved and memory remap Help

[Trugmolly]

HI
I have the 4core1333 full hd motherboared with.
To cut a long story short I have tried 64 bit op systems xp and win 7. They both reserve almost half my 6gig of memory for hardware.
I have tried memory remap(this makes the blue screen appear on boot) and msconfig maxmem settings.
Onboard graphics and a 256mb card, no difference.
It says in the manual that 'due to chipset limitation the max mem may be limited to less than 4gig..reserved for system usage under xp 'etc
Is this an issue with the board? Basically am I stuck with a board that will hold back a whole bunch of my memory or is there a fix for this.
I have 1.7 bios which is up to date.
Thanks in advance for any help. This is really really bugging me.

[mmettin]

Could you enter your system information into the space for that in your User CP then enable viewing of it? Or could you make a detailed signature listing all of your parts? This will help others answer this and future questions, and you only need to do it once. As an example of the level of detail we need, you can click on my system dropdown or look at some of the others you see here. Thanks.

[Trugmolly]

Cheers, I will do that

[Trugmolly]

I hope that someone out there has an answer
These are my full specs

Operating System System Model
Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United Kingdom) Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.40 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Not hyper-threaded Board: 4Core1333-FullHD
Bus Clock: 267 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. P1.70 02/19/2008
Drives Memory Modules c,d
2080.44 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
1356.25 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202N ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Generic IC1230-M CF USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 5
Generic IC1230-M MS USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 6
Generic IC1230-M SM USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 8
Generic IC1230-M MMC/SD USB Device [Hard drive] (3.96 GB) -- drive 7, s/n , SMART Status: Healthy
Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n GEA534RJ2KRBMA, rev GM4OA5CA, SMART Status: Healthy
Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 2, s/n GEA534RJ2R9SMA, rev GM4OA5CA, SMART Status: Healthy
MAXTOR STM380211AS [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 6PS3ZGGJ, rev 3.AAE, SMART Status: Healthy
WD 5000BEV External USB Device [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 4, s/n WD-WX30A69H2661
WDC WD5000AAKS-22YGA0 [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 3, s/n WD-WCAS83008267, rev 12.01C02, SMART Status: Healthy 3712 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' has 2048 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 1) 80.02 GB 43.22 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 500.11 GB 499.97 GB free
e: (NTFS on drive 3) 500.11 GB 106.72 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 2) 500.10 GB 391.50 GB free
i: (NTFS on drive 4) 500.11 GB 314.85 GB free

Network Drives

Printers
EPSON Stylus SX400 Series on USB001
Microsoft Shared Fax Driver on SHRFAX:
Microsoft XPS Document Writer on XPSPort:

Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
ATA Channel 0 [Controller] (2x)
ATA Channel 1 [Controller] (2x)
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (2x) NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS [Display adapter]
ViewSonic VA2213w-2 [Monitor] (21.7"vis, s/n R3R085101226, December 2008)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (5x) High Definition Audio Device

Communications Other Devices

Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet
Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface

Controller
Standard PS/2 Keyboard
Microsoft PS/2 Mouse
USB Mass Storage Device (2x)
USB Root Hub (6x)
Generic volume shadow copy




Failing anything else I would be happy to know exactly what is the 'reserved' hardware memory doing? What exactly would be using it.

Cheers

[mmettin]

the way this reads to me is you MUST use identical memory modules; in all 4 slots

for your reference here is the manufacturer driver page

http://www.asrock.com/MB/download.as...llHD&o=Vista64

[CMB]

What amount of memory is windows seeing ?
Can you post a screenshot of your system information>system summary.
Is windows just seeing

3712 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

If so it sounds as if mmettin is correct and you are only seeing the 2x 2gb sticks or only 1gb in each slot minus some memory reserved for various devices and onboard video ( 256mb??)

[abcxxx]

I have this exact problem fixed ! With Gigabyte p55a ud3r and Kingston KHX1600C9D3K4/8GX.

When you buy ram, you get them in pairs, as it turned out each pair/memory stick can only work on memory channel 1 or memory channel 2.

If you put a pair of memory that designed to work only on channel 1, on channel 2 (like I did unknowingly). The Bios only recognizes them, "BUT" not made available to use.
Windows 7 can only see the total ram installed (in my case 8GB), but can't make use of the other 4GB on memory channel 2, and
Windows 7 thinks the 4GB memory are "HARDWARE RESERVED".

So I advices you to switch them up between the memory slots, like I did, and now I only have 5 MB HARDWARE RESERVED instead of 4GB like before when I put the ram sticks on the wrongs slots/channel.

And now, have a joyful day !

[wonkanoby]

look in bios for memory holeor remapping or similar

[LouTheBlueGuru]

Has anyone noticed this post is over 6 months old? Furthermore, the board is so old that it will never recognize 8 gigs of memory. It's just like a 32 bit board.