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4 GB RAM and 32bit Vista?
4GB of RAM works fine with a 32-bit operating system.
2 to the 32nd power = 4,294,967,296 (~4 GB), however, less is available to the OS, since motherboard resources use some of this address space, and Windows will only report 3.X (mine is 3,405,568 KB ~ 3.4 GB) available for Windows to use. Some have reported problems with certain mobos and 4GB RAM and 32-bit Vista. I have no problems here -- Vista 32-bit flies and I seldom use over 45% of available RAM. "bitla50" wrote in message ... Is it true, as I was told, that 4 GB RAM will only work with 64-bit Vista? Or can you have 4GB RAM or more with a 32-bit system? |
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4 GB RAM and 32bit Vista?
Hi
I just installed an additional 2gb of ram into my otherwise perfect Vista 32bit PC. The DIMM's were identical to the original two - and I mean identical. Though they were recognized in BIOS, Vista spewed continuously at CRCDISK.sys (BSOD) and could not/would not even boot from CD until I eventually thought to remove 1Gb. Only then did Vista, surprise, surprise, get around to starting again as if nothing had happened. IMHO, there are severe issues with VISTA and 4Gb of RAM. Others have written about it and there seems to be no particular solution at the moment (that I can find anyway). Rather a lot of folks are sitting looking at a spare memory stick on their desk.... If anyone can help me I would appreciate it. "bitla50" wrote: Is it true, as I was told, that 4 GB RAM will only work with 64-bit Vista? Or can you have 4GB RAM or more with a 32-bit system? |
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4 GB RAM and 32bit Vista?
I think it depends on many factors honestly. I upped my RAM to 4gb. At
the moment both XP and Vista only see 2.919gb with an ATI Radeon 9550 card, but if I re-insert my X1650 card then that jumps 3.431gb, plus my Vista "rating" increases from 3.1 to 4.2. I never had that BSOD problem with the RAM in Vista, only with the AGP graphics card and ATI software. -- Peter Toronto, Canada P4 HT @ 3ghz, 4gb DDR, 700gb HDD Soundblaster Audigy 4 ATI Radeon 9550 AGP Graphics "Smilerfive" wrote in message ... Hi I just installed an additional 2gb of ram into my otherwise perfect Vista 32bit PC. The DIMM's were identical to the original two - and I mean identical. Though they were recognized in BIOS, Vista spewed continuously at CRCDISK.sys (BSOD) and could not/would not even boot from CD until I eventually thought to remove 1Gb. Only then did Vista, surprise, surprise, get around to starting again as if nothing had happened. IMHO, there are severe issues with VISTA and 4Gb of RAM. Others have written about it and there seems to be no particular solution at the moment (that I can find anyway). Rather a lot of folks are sitting looking at a spare memory stick on their desk.... If anyone can help me I would appreciate it. "bitla50" wrote: Is it true, as I was told, that 4 GB RAM will only work with 64-bit Vista? Or can you have 4GB RAM or more with a 32-bit system? |
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4 GB RAM and 32bit Vista?
I gotta go with Cal bear on this one...I too run a 32bit Vista Business with
4 gigs of ram....Computer shows 3.5 "Cal Bear '66" wrote in message ... 4GB of RAM works fine with a 32-bit operating system. 2 to the 32nd power = 4,294,967,296 (~4 GB), however, less is available to the OS, since motherboard resources use some of this address space, and Windows will only report 3.X (mine is 3,405,568 KB ~ 3.4 GB) available for Windows to use. Some have reported problems with certain mobos and 4GB RAM and 32-bit Vista. I have no problems here -- Vista 32-bit flies and I seldom use over 45% of available RAM. "bitla50" wrote in message ... Is it true, as I was told, that 4 GB RAM will only work with 64-bit Vista? Or can you have 4GB RAM or more with a 32-bit system? |
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