Got a noob level memory question

Hey all, pulled the trigger about a month ago and got the 8760 with the ATI after much begging from 'she who must be obeyed'
I've noticed that I can't run any games in DX10 or 11 without the gpu crashing almost right away yet everything thing else runs fine so I am thinking its the memory. I haven't run Prime95 or MemTest but i think I found the problem in the BIOS. Here comes the noob question:
In system memory it shows 8mb and extended memory shows 6gb. Isn't this backwards? If it is, how do I change it? Or am I just insane?
Thanks all

 

I believe that's your ram (I cba explaining 'cause i'm still so hung over and can't think straight).

Is the crashes only in DX10/11?
How does the crashes look? Is it just to desktop, or does it shut down completely?
Do any artifacts (graphical glitches) appear?
Would be easier to help you with more specifics (even though that wasn't the original question).

If you think it's the ram i would advise you to run MemTest asap. No point in waiting around if you believe there's any hardware failure.

 

If it's crashing as in just shutdown, are you running games while plugged in or on battery?

 

Sorry for the late reply, had a family emergency and had to go home.
Here's what I see when I play any game but I'll use Bioshock2 as an example. In DirectX10, it'll load fine, the movie sequence will play fine, but then as soon as I start moving after about a minute the screen will freeze and then about thirty seconds later the screen will go white and then it will minimize to the tray and I get a device driver has recovered message. During the initial screen freeze up, there is still sound and if I fire a gun I can hear it.
In DirectX9 everything is okay. Also I tried it on my old gateway FX and it ran fine on max settings using a dual core and a gts9800.
I ran prime95 for 24 hrs and all tests were good. I am also using the latest 10.3 driver.
If a temp test of the gpu is next, what program should I use or do you think you may know the problem already?

 

i have a similar problem when i watch something on hulu and when i game my pc restarts and when i go to event log i get Kernel-power 41 critical error.

I know our problems are not the same but this worked for me. Mine sometimes crashed and i got the that recovery message but most of the time it would just crash and restart. If you have Realtek drivers roll them back in device manager. thats what was causing the issue for me. my pc would crash and then restart. I tried this fix yesterday and so far so good.