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david15
Journeyman III

I have 8gb but only 5.9 is useable

I have a hp pavilion gaming desktop. With a Ryzen 5 3400g and dedicated gtx 1650. But the problem is that it says I have 8gb ram but 2.1 is reserved. My bios is uefi bios.

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kheper
Adept III

Go into the BIOS/UEFI. Look for "UMA Frame buffer Size". Reduce the buffer size. The BIOS is reserving 2GB of main memory for the 3400g.

Ryzen 5 Pro 4650g, ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac, 16GB Crucial Ballistix 3600MHz, SAMSUNG 970 EVO NVMe 500GB, Super Flower Leadex III Gold 850W

Where do i find this on my bios System vips: F.47

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kheper
Adept III

HP locks the Advanced BIOS Tab on some (or most) of its computers. There are a number of threads on the HP forums - which discuss the matter. Users complain that HP deliberately castrated their BIOSes. HP (or an OEM) set the UMA Frame size to a fixed/unchangeable 2GB. You're probably out of luck. You may wish to stay away from HP products in the future.    

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Boot-and-Lockup/How-do-i-enable-the-Advanced-Bios-settings-ob-...

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/advanced-settings-in-bios-is-hi...


Ryzen 5 Pro 4650g, ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac, 16GB Crucial Ballistix 3600MHz, SAMSUNG 970 EVO NVMe 500GB, Super Flower Leadex III Gold 850W
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