Hardware reserved Memory?

AdamantForce said:

This is my Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit system reserved memory usage.

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What do you mean by patched to 64 bit?

It is a patch to remove the 4 GB physical ram limitation in the kernel.

pallesenw said:

It is a patch to remove the 4 GB physical ram limitation in the kernel.

You might wanna look at this..
Upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit problem

Activate memory hole remapping in BIOS and you will get your "harware reserved" memory back.

Why is my hardware reserve memory so high?

Welcome to the forum.

Is this a 32 or 64 bit OS? What you are seeing is to be expected in a 32 bit OS if 16 GB RAM is installed. A 32 bit OS can address a maximum of 4 GB RAM of which about 3-3.5 GB will be accessible.

32 bit, I understand the amount of usable memory with a 32 bit system. But why so much allocated to hardware reserve.

With a 32 bit OS all memory above the 4 GB limit will be assigned to hardware reserved to prevent it being used. There is no one other category available for inaccessible memory.