Big Hardware Reserved Memory & Small Free Memory

Hi,
In my Intel Pentium 4 516, 2933 MHz, Asus PTGD1-LA (goldfish3) motherboard machine installed with windows 7 64 bit machine, when I right click my computer and see system properties, I see that "Installed Memory(RAM): 4 GB(2.62 GB usable)".I have 4 x 1 GB DDR2 RAM modules (Corsair Value Select VS1GB533D2).
I have verified, * All of RAM modules are working * All of RAM slots in mother board are working
Into the BIOS, are all 4Gb reported as being there.
These ram sticks were working perfect before, and in one moment something happened that windows start to show the amount of installed memory is different than usable and of course my computer gets a slow and even sometimes amount of free memory is equal 0, which make impossible to do anything on the computer.
I will really appreciate if someone helps me because I tried to find how to solve this problem, but I didn't succeeded.
Thanks in advance !!!

 

Hi my friend

How you know about your memory is alright ? Have you check memory for memtest86 for instance ( each stick for 6 hours or so ) ? What is your bios version ? Do you try to re seat ram from your motherboard ? You could take a photos of your ram's modules posting us here

 

Yes, I did already. Everything was OK with my ram

 

Hi,

I forgot about picture.

 

The installed memory is 4gb, BUT your graphics card/chip uses ram, applications use ram, so, Usable ram is the amount of free ram you have at that time.

 

To remove the 1410 MB that is reserved, do the following:
1. In the search/run box type msconfig and enter
2. Click on the Boot tab then Advanced options
3. In the right hand side, uncheck the box for maximum memory. On the left uncheck the box for number of processors.
4. Click ok
5. Reboot.

 

I already check and uncheck and nothing changed.
Even when manually I put # of ram memory after restart was 0.

 

My Bios

 

I run Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit with 3 GB RAM & a 1.8 GHz CPU.
Have a look at my screenshots compared to those in your post #1.
There are 2 differences that stand out - Hardware Reserved & Hardfaults/sec.
Then read this.
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/52249.aspx

 

After reading I tried to setup my virtual memory this way how was discribed in the article but it didn't help. Still I have Installed memory 4096 MB 2679 MB of Total.
When I setup my "Total paging file size for all drives" I've got 5370 MB but when I restarted computer it was back to 2679 MB. What I supposed to do to make this stay on 5370 MB?

 

You're probably using System Managed size. Select Custom Size and set your minimum and maximum values. You'll have to restart the computer immediately afterward.

 

How much supposed be minimum and maximum value ?

 

I tried min. 4000 MB and max. 5370 MB. I'm not sure if this is right. Another thing after setting this and closing it didn't ask to restart. it looks like it didn't take these changes. I restarted and and this is what I have:

 

I added Resource Monitor

 

You have probably done all of this but have another look in case you missed something.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...installed-memory-on-windows-7-based-computers

BTW Is this you?
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/641694/memory-ram-works-strange-way/page-1

 

I read this article some time ago, but my problem is a bit different. I think.
My computer was working with these memory's sticks before, and in a one moment something changed.
And I didn't have my "Installed Memory" (4 GB) together with "Usable Memory" (2. 67GB). I had only 4 GB of "Installed Memory" that's it. At that time, my "Hardware Reserved" was always around 2 MB instead of 1486 MB at present, and my "Free" memory was about 2700 instead of 4 MB or 7 MB at now. Something has changed, and this is what I try to find out with your help, guys.
The second answer is "yes." I'm very desperate looking toward a solution, and I tried another place.
Is there any problem with this?

 

Have you changed any hardware?

 

Big NO

 

Hi,

I don't know if it is important but I noticed in the Device Manager that my Video Controller there is with yellow exclamation mark it means - something is wrong. I'm not sure but if there is any chance that my problems with Ram are connected to it?

 

Do you mean the Display adapter?
I had the same with the Display adapter in Windows XP even though the video was fine.
I installed the driver from the motherboard support DVD and then it showed there are 2 Display adapters!

 

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Ok.
Double-click Video Controller and look what it says under Device status.

 

!

 

Click Update Driver...
Or, if you have the motherboard disc, you should install the driver from there.

 

Push Details tab scroll the Property menu down finding Hardware ids , there is a code in there , with Select All - Copy - Paste you could give that to us . Is your system hp ? Your motherboard is too old , your system equipments eat ram ( graphics card etc ) i think

 

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2582&SUBSYS_2A08103C&REV_04
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2582&SUBSYS_2A08103C
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2582&CC_038000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2582&CC_0380

 

There is a problem , your motherboard is old , it's hard to find win7 drivers

 

Not Chance to fix it?

 

Have you tried the suggestion in post #24?

 

Yes, and it was not updating.

 

Asus si te shows nothing for the Asus PTGD1-LA (goldfish3) motherboard
BUT, HP do.........Type in just PTGD1-LA (goldfish3) and it lists drivers for Windows 10 (it picked up my syste, and offered some !!
Now it could be worth trying the drivers for your system there.
It is a bit of a guess which model to choose, but if looking from your computer it should offer something compatible. Different manufacturers often used similar, if not identical motherboards- be careful about Bios, though... That can be very iffy.
Otherwise try advanced system care driver tool-
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/iobit_driver_booster.html

 

You can also use a usb stick as ready boost with Windows 7-faster than paging file, and slower than ram, but useful
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff356869.aspx

 

Thanks for your advises Baklogic. I'm gonna try to do what you said.