{"id":407,"date":"2010-10-08T14:16:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2011-09-05T21:07:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T20:07:12","slug":"hardware-reserved-memory-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/2010\/10\/08\/hardware-reserved-memory-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Reserved Memory in Windows 7 Part1 for 64bit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I’ve been using photo editing application and noticed that my laptop was struggling. Quick view in Task manager<\/strong> revealed that I running out of memory but the interesting thing was that total amount of physical memory was less then I expected. So next I popped up Resource Monitor<\/strong> and clicked onto Memory<\/strong> tab. This revealed that 561MB was Hardware Reserved<\/strong>.
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The last thing to check was Basic system information in computer properties. In there it said:
\nInstalled memory (RAM): 4.00 GB (3.45 GB usable)<\/strong>
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\nThere must be something wrong. I’m running Windows 7 64bit which should not have problems with memory limitations. So where did 561MB gone??? I have another same model laptop and it had no such problem so it must be setting somewhere.<\/p>\n

The fix is very simple just go to System Configuration<\/strong> by typing msconfig<\/strong> in your start menu. Select Boot<\/strong> tab. Click Advanced options…<\/strong> button in there untick Maximum memory<\/strong> box if it’s ticked and reboot your computer.
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After reboot check the memory. As you can see from screenshots bellow in my case Hardware Reserved <\/strong>has dropped to 49MB. Also to my knowledge this option is unticked by default :
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I’ve tested this on some other computer and on some of them it can eat up Hardware Reserved<\/strong> as much as 1GB of RAM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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