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    Posted: 27 Mar 2018 at 6:31am
Originally posted by WhoYouGonaCall WhoYouGonaCall wrote:

I did not clear cmos but I found buffer ram option, instead of disabling gfx controller i shwitched to forced. And buffer vaule set to 64mb now i have 7.8 from 8gb of ram. Its not 8 but its much better, but i will try clearing cmos anyway but now i have go to work. Bye and thanks ;)


You will not get 8GB free. The system must assign every device it enumerates it's req'd memory aside.
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I did not clear cmos but I found buffer ram option, instead of disabling gfx controller i shwitched to forced. And buffer vaule set to 64mb now i have 7.8 from 8gb of ram. Its not 8 but its much better, but i will try clearing cmos anyway but now i have go to work. Bye and thanks ;)

Edited by WhoYouGonaCall - 26 Mar 2018 at 8:00pm
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Like Kerberos_20 said, it will not harm your system in any way provided you follow the steps:

1. Power off the system
2. Disconnect power from the wall
3. Press the power button for 5 seconds or so
4. Open the case and locate the clear CMOS jumper
5. Place the jumper in the clear position for a few seconds
6. Restore the jumper to it's original position
7. Put the case back together and power the system back on

If you are uncomfortable with this, then by all means take your system to a professional, maybe ask them if you can watch what they do.

If you do go ahead with clearing CMOS yourself, let us know what happens after and if it resolved your missing memory issue. If so, we will happily walk you through what settings to change in the BIOS to get the most out of your system Wink
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bios version will not change
reset cmos, and make no changes
boot to windows and see if that helps
if all ok, feel free to change your bios settings

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Well, I have neve did that before, I don't know if that will broke my PC, because i dont know what setting should i set after bios reset. And don't know if this will remove my update 4.70. I think i give my pc to some hardware specialist then
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well then...u may try to clear cmos

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Well, I can not check those, because the only option in GFX configuration is Integrated Graphics Controller, no other subfolders etc
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Advanced\AMD CBS\NBIO Common Options\GFX Configuration\UMA Mode\UMA_Specified
Advanced\AMD CBS\NBIO Common Options\GFX Configuration\UMA Frame Buffer Size

check those

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In device manager APU was enabled.
So i went to bios to given path and in GFX configuration folder, and found there only integrated graphics adapter cotroller, changed AUTO to disabled, saved changes, restarted... and  the only thing that has changed is APU is not any more visible in device manager, available ram is still at 6.93GB .
Went back to bios but did not find shared  ram option. That  is propably the clue, but as I said i can not find this option in BIOS. It is not visible at Advanced\AMD CBS\NBIO Common Options\GFX Configuration  path

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is your apu disabled?
check your device manager
either way, there should be in bios settings to disable igpu or to change shared ram
Path: Advanced\AMD CBS\NBIO Common Options\GFX Configuration

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