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So, I bought 8GB of RAM for my HP Laptop, I installed both cards, when I boot up, it shows 8GB installed, but only 3.92 Usable. I'm running Windows 8.1 32-Bit, even when looking in task manager I see 640MB in use, 2.8 GB Available. On the right side I do see 4.5 GB for Hardware reserved, I'm not 100 familiar with 8.1 being as I primarily use my desktop with Win7, I just thought I might get it ready for Win10 for next month, ANYWAY, is this correct? I don't think/feel it is but i would like some help on figuring this issue out since google didn't help much.

I have tried:

  • Swapping places of the sticks.
  • Changing it in msconfig(When I do, I check the box that says Maximum memory, which then defaults to 8192, apply it, and check the box that says "Make all boot settings permanent", but then the box then comes unchecked and the Maximum memory gets changed to 0)
  • Running a memory test in my BIOS, is passes.
  • Looked in my BIOS for other possible configs to change but I can't see any to change that have anything to do with my memory.
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All versions of 32-bit Windows have a 4GB limit for memory.

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