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8.00GB RAM (3.22GB usable) in Windows 7 x64

Lenovo Z575 laptop with 8GB RAM Windows Ultimate, 64-Bit, Service Pack 1, installed this evening with latest drivers etc. AMD A6-3420M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 1.5 Ghz

System info shows RAM as 8.00 GB (3.47Gb usable)

Resource Monitor shows: 4634 MB Hardware Reserved, 734 MB In Use, 95 MB Modified, 593 MB Standby, 2138 MB Free

Available 2738 MB, Cached 699 MB, Total 3558 MB, Installed 8192 MB

Previous OS (Home Premium) showed 8GB and 7.5GB available but kept crashing recently so upgraded.

The question is how do I get the Hardware Reserved RAM back?

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If you poke around in your system BIOS, you should find a setting which allows you to change the amount of RAM that is reserved for the use of your laptop's video card. You will likely find this already set to some outrageous value such as 4096MB. Lower this value and you will increase the amount of memory available to the operating system.

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