FM2-A75MA-E35, Less Usable Memory than installed....

I just powered up my new FM2-A75MA-E35 Mainboard with A6-5400K and 4G memory stick. Running Win 7 Ult 64.
When I used on board video, I had 3g out of 4G available. I assume the missing 1G was reserved for video use.
So I put in my ATI Radeon HD 5670 video card hoping that disabling the onboard video and using plugin video card memory would free up the missing 1G of ram.
Instead, now I have 2.9G out of 4G available.
Any help or guidance is appreciated.

F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL if i'm not mistaken are G-Skill Ripjaws (they are known to be very problematic on MSI boards Due to a DEAL with a brand-X) try some different RAM and i would suggest some from Corsair of 1.5v instead!
at most the board will dedicate with 8GB installed 2-2.5GB to the IGPU max (1.5GB if only running 4GB at the most) so it sounds more like a incompatibility due to the poor choice you have made when you bought the RAM!
if its no incompatibility then you have some VERY FAULTY RAM so its either a incompatibility or very BAD ram involved here.... i suggest you get some different ram from one of these 2 Manufacturers (Corsair & Crucial) as G-Skill cant be trusted on a MSI board as they have a very bad rep and in particular the RIPJAW skew they make!

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Quote from: Sea Dog on 01-February-14, 05:32:19
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=40413.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=157376.0
well i have already went these pages before i post my topic
i listed my parts above ,i want overclock my cpu by bios mode manual i don't want oc genie mode , i want to make it 4.3 ghz

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