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Anyone trying 8GB of memory on Vista 64?
Colin Barnhorst;578269 Wrote: You may have much better luck with pc5300 ram. This newsgroup has dozens of postings on the problems of trying to use pc6400 ram in all four dimm slots on many mobos. Hmm, wonder why the bandwidth rating of the DIMMS would have anything to do with the outcome in this instance. I've already purchased PC6400 DIMMS so will try them and see. For what it's worth, they will be running at 333mHz, not 400mHz. There are reports of success with Vista 64 and 4 x 2GB as well, on P35 chipsets. -- Noel |
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Anyone trying 8GB of memory on Vista 64?
Colin Barnhorst;579100 Wrote: Like I said, try it with pc5300, not pc6400. By the way, dual booting XP and Vista on a production or primary home computer is not a good idea. All of the VSS files used by Vista's recovery facilities are wiped out on each boot into XP. That means restore points, previous versions files, CompletePC Backup images, and backup files made by the new file backup program just vanish. Ouch, how evil is that?! That is truly an awful design plan, and how could that not be intentional? Obviously I know very little about the whole issue, but from what you say Colin I can't of a more aweful design behavior to force people into Vista to stay. Sick! I keep reading all over the place of people dual booting this, but I haven't dug deep enough to discover what the pitfalls are. I HAVE a loosely formed impression that this issue occurs when you install Vista first. Is there anything to this? If what you say is true then I guess I will not be dual booting, and will just do the build with XP, and wait until XP is no longer EVER required. Guess I'll park my other 4gb of PC-6400 in a cool dry place until happier days. That's pathetic . . . -- Noel |
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Anyone trying 8GB of memory on Vista 64?
Based on my reading in the newsgroups, running 667 should be OK. You did
mention pc6400 but did not say you were not running it at 800. "Noel" wrote in message ... Colin Barnhorst;578269 Wrote: You may have much better luck with pc5300 ram. This newsgroup has dozens of postings on the problems of trying to use pc6400 ram in all four dimm slots on many mobos. Hmm, wonder why the bandwidth rating of the DIMMS would have anything to do with the outcome in this instance. I've already purchased PC6400 DIMMS so will try them and see. For what it's worth, they will be running at 333mHz, not 400mHz. There are reports of success with Vista 64 and 4 x 2GB as well, on P35 chipsets. -- Noel |
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Anyone trying 8GB of memory on Vista 64?
Colin Barnhorst;579718 Wrote: Based on my reading in the newsgroups, running 667 should be OK. You did mention pc6400 but did not say you were not running it at 800. Yeah, cool. I decided to go with a strategy that deviates from my history of only buying the best bang:buck parts and instead opted to buy some "high end" parts no matter what the cost! I have some bucks laying around, am not in debt, and have a huge fear of impending national and world economic doom, so would rather have quality tangible goods versus too many paper dollars . . . So, I sprung for an insanely priced QX9650 retail. Then, I sprung for PC Power n Cooling highest end 750W quiet PS. Going this route let me spend low dollars on Muskin PC-6400 ram, a pretty low cost 8800GT ($249) . Didn't even need PC-6400, but again the price was pleasant for 8GB so what the hey. I'm hopeful the system should be very stable from a hardware point of view. I have reasonably quiet and seriously effective "air" cooling, so should be hitting 4.0 to 4.25 GHz with even the slightest luck. Beyond that there is a good argument performance won't increase with the Penryns. So there you go. -- Noel |
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Anyone trying 8GB of memory on Vista 64?
It makes no difference which OS is installed first.
This is all by design in the sense that both XP and Vista are running as designed. They just aren't designed to be run together on the same box without measures to isolate Vista from XP. Let me offer a partial analogy. Let's say you have been parking your standard sized car in your garage for years. Now you decide to trade in the sedan for a Hummer. You get home and discover that the Hummer won't fit in the garage. Is it because the garage was poorly designed? No. Is it because the Hummer was poorly designed? No. Each was designed OK and neither malfunctions. The problem comes up when you try to combine the two. That's how it is with XP and Vista. It is not because of a bug suddenly appearing in XP. It hasn't. It isn't because of a bug in Vista. Nothing like this happens when you run Vista by itself. The problem only appears when you combine the two. MS has made the decision not to do to XP what it would take to make XP's VSS driver Vista compatible. It turns out that VSS is so pervasive that a serious rewrite to XP would be required. Since multibooting is extremely rare (only a tiny fraction of 1% of the Windows user base of hundreds of millions do it), it just is not cost-effective for MS to do the rewrite when the impact is so negligible. Of course a disproportiate number of users who visit this newsgroup are technology enthusiasts so when you read this ng it appears to be a bigger issue than it really is. It is our ox that has been gored. Obviously you can do as you like, but at least make an informed decision based on what you use Vista for and the risks to your important data that is involved when using XP on the same machine. For example, if you are into things like photo-editing then the shadowcopies feature (the new Previous Versions tab on the file properties page) may be very important to you. The decision I made was to run XP on a different box. Another alternative I use is to run XP in a virtual machine using Virtual PC 2007 on my Vista machine. It just depends of what I want to do in XP as to which alternative I use to do it. "Noel" wrote in message ... Colin Barnhorst;579100 Wrote: Like I said, try it with pc5300, not pc6400. By the way, dual booting XP and Vista on a production or primary home computer is not a good idea. All of the VSS files used by Vista's recovery facilities are wiped out on each boot into XP. That means restore points, previous versions files, CompletePC Backup images, and backup files made by the new file backup program just vanish. Ouch, how evil is that?! That is truly an awful design plan, and how could that not be intentional? Obviously I know very little about the whole issue, but from what you say Colin I can't of a more aweful design behavior to force people into Vista to stay. Sick! I keep reading all over the place of people dual booting this, but I haven't dug deep enough to discover what the pitfalls are. I HAVE a loosely formed impression that this issue occurs when you install Vista first. Is there anything to this? If what you say is true then I guess I will not be dual booting, and will just do the build with XP, and wait until XP is no longer EVER required. Guess I'll park my other 4gb of PC-6400 in a cool dry place until happier days. That's pathetic . . . -- Noel |
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Anyone trying 8GB of memory on Vista 64?
Colin, what do you make of this article? Scrolling down I see a few people who experience the problem you refer to, but others who say all is well provided the follow this article's guide: 'How to dual-boot Vista with XP - step-by-step guide with screenshots | APC Magazine' (http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_...#comment-31514) -- Noel |
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Anyone trying 8GB of memory on Vista 64?
In article , Colin Barnhorst
says... That has been tried since early in the beta test program and did no good. None of the favorites among boot managers hide the Vista volume in such a way as to prevent the problem. I believe you don't have to hide the Vista volume if you use an other bootmanager. On my site I present my bootmanager, but it is in the Dutch language. It can hide with every startup by choice. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Jawade. Weer veel vernieuwd! http://jawade.nl/ Met een mirror op http://jawade.fortunecity.com/ Bootmanager (+Vista), ClrMBR, DiskEditors, POP3lezer, Filebrowser, Kalender, Webtellers en IP-log, Linux-Diskeditor, USB-stick tester |
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Anyone trying 8GB of memory on Vista 64?
I don't know how yours works but all the ones tried could hide a volume from
user programs but could not hide the volume from XP's volsnap.sys. Be sure you have verified that Vista VSS files persist after booting into XP in other than safe mode (the problem does not occur if booting XP in safe mode because volsnap.sys is one of the drivers not loaded in safe mode). "Jawade" wrote in message ... In article , Colin Barnhorst says... That has been tried since early in the beta test program and did no good. None of the favorites among boot managers hide the Vista volume in such a way as to prevent the problem. I believe you don't have to hide the Vista volume if you use an other bootmanager. On my site I present my bootmanager, but it is in the Dutch language. It can hide with every startup by choice. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Jawade. Weer veel vernieuwd! http://jawade.nl/ Met een mirror op http://jawade.fortunecity.com/ Bootmanager (+Vista), ClrMBR, DiskEditors, POP3lezer, Filebrowser, Kalender, Webtellers en IP-log, Linux-Diskeditor, USB-stick tester |
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Anyone trying 8GB of memory on Vista 64?
This article is great for setting up a dual boot system but it does not
address the issue of what happens to Vista VSS files when XP boots; the XP volsnap.sys problem. "Noel" wrote in message ... Colin, what do you make of this article? Scrolling down I see a few people who experience the problem you refer to, but others who say all is well provided the follow this article's guide: 'How to dual-boot Vista with XP - step-by-step guide with screenshots | APC Magazine' (http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_...#comment-31514) -- Noel |
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Anyone trying 8GB of memory on Vista 64?
In article , Colin Barnhorst
says... I don't know how yours works but all the ones tried could hide a volume from user programs but could not hide the volume from XP's volsnap.sys. Be sure you have verified that Vista VSS files persist after booting into XP in other than safe mode (the problem does not occur if booting XP in safe mode because volsnap.sys is one of the drivers not loaded in safe mode). OK, i did't know that. Mine hide the other partition in the MBR, the type byte. And it happens before any thing is started. If Windows works fair (!) it cannot look at the hidden volume. I have an virtual machine with Vista & XP with my bootmanager and had never problems. But I didnt check all the points. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Jawade. Weer veel vernieuwd! http://jawade.nl/ Met een mirror op http://jawade.fortunecity.com/ Bootmanager (+Vista), ClrMBR, DiskEditors, POP3lezer, Filebrowser, Kalender, Webtellers en IP-log, Linux-Diskeditor, USB-stick tester |