Ah yes, this then is usually a problem with RAM not being seated quite right. Try reseating the RAM, and making sure no dust is in the way.
Ah yes, this then is usually a problem with RAM not being seated quite right. Try reseating the RAM, and making sure no dust is in the way.Windows 7 Pro 64bit. It is reporting 16GB reserved for hardware. I've seen the same problem being reported by people using Windows 10 too.
I'd personally enjoy a picture of the Xfire setup if you want to post it here.
As someone who used Crossfire back in the day with Radeon 290s... don't do it if you notice microstutters.
I'll try that but Speccy and CPU-Z both show 32GB of ram present.Ah yes, this then is usually a problem with RAM not being seated quite right. Try reseating the RAM, and making sure no dust is in the way.
I'll look at the BIOS to see if there might be some setting that could be the problem. The maximum ram fix has not worked. If I set it below 16 gb then Windows reports that amount of ram usable. But if I uncheck the maximum ram or set it to 32768 MB windows still reports 15.9 usable.Check integrated GPU settings in BIOS. Maybe it is reserving 16GB RAM. Also, type msconfig in Run and check Advanced settings to see that Maximum RAM is not limited to 16GB.
This is a clean install of Windows 7. I have installed a couple of utilities and all the drivers except the video drivers. I re seated the ram but the board went from the antistatic bag to the case so there is no dust involved. All the hardware monitors show that there is 32gb installed. Resource monitor reports 16562MB hardware reserved. It also reports 11583MB cached. I haven't done anything with a ram drive or cache settings.Do you happen to have a Ramdrive setup?
Or samsung Magician set on cache?
Can you copy and paste your resource manager in windows ?
Start -> Resource Monitor.
Then under Memory Tab see what it says.
It should look something like this:
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I enabled A-XMP that did not fix the problem.Check every option in BIOS.
I see this problem all over the place. MSI x470 gaming max plus. I already re seated the ram sticks. They are in the right slots. A2 and B2 which is kind of counter intuitive. One would think it should be A1 and B1. This is what my BIOS screen looks like. This has A1 and B1 populated. The only thing weird is that the total memory size my board is reporting in the upper right is 16384MB but like this example 16384 is reported in slot A2 and B2. Would switching the ram sticks to A1 and B1 cause any harm to the board?
OK, I never thought PCs could be this weird. People solved this hardware reserved RAM issue by reseating RAM sticks, blowing out the dust from RAM slots, identifying a bad stick, putting one stick first then the other and finally, the craziest, cleaning the pins of the CPU!
NoWould switching the ram sticks to A1 and B1 cause any harm to the board?
I'm using this kit.No
Corsair RAM. No wonder.
Oh ok. I thought the screenshot was of your own BIOS screen.I'm using this kit.
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No just an example that matched mine except it is using 8GB sticks instead of 16GB. The computer isn't connected to the internet yet. I started the musical ram thing. Both sticks are good. When I put one in slot A2 Windows reports 16GB ram with 16GB usable. It shows 78MB reserved for hardware. This is looking like Windows stupidity. I'm going to try slot A1 next.Oh ok. I thought the screenshot was of your own BIOS screen.
This is a clean install of Windows 7
You never toyed with the idea of playing with twins?Is it safe to say crossfire in 2023 is not a good idea yet?
Yes I'm running 64bitplease tell me your running 64bit and not 32bit.
You never toyed with the idea of playing with twins?