Issues with "reserved memory"

[Mr Bolt]

I've just bought a laptop (lenovo s145 AMD Athlon w/ vega graphics) which was on sale and came across a strange memory issue.

it had 3.4GB useable and 600MB hardware reserved which was fine, I threw in another 4GB for a total of 8GB now my issue is that it has 5.9GB usable and 2.1 hardware reserved which i think is a bit much for a built in low end GPU

I've not seen any option in the bios to change the amount i've flashed the bios to hope maybe it would add a setting but that isn't the case and there is still no option.

As suggested by a friend i have changed the MS config to use all ram but that didn't fix the issue

if anyone can suggest something i havn't tried it would be much appreciated

 

[Mr Bolt]

It's reserving some of the RAM for the graphics, it will always need some RAM for the graphics because it doesn't have a dedicated graphics card. As you've added more RAM the laptop has reserved more to help with better graphics - nothing wrong with it.

Even with a proper GPU it has got to reserve something (bit like a page file is needed by some software to work properly even if never used), mines is at 63MB

As said above i have no problem with that BUT 2GB is way too much considering this igpu is like half the speed of a GT1030.