I just built a new system for vista, the prob is I got 4gb of ram and well vista dosnt seem to like it during install it would keep on crashing, I took out 2 gbs and it worked fine, I put the 2 gb back in and vista only sees 2.5gb. I know that vista can take 4gb. So is this a prob with my mobo, ram or vista Mobo - evga Nforce 680i Sli RAM - Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2 Dominator, PC8500 Vista - ultimate 32bit when i run system analysis sofware like cpu-z or belarc they both see the 4gb of ram can any one help!
Might be a bad chip, you could swap them out and put them in different slots to see if that helps, but since the software sees it then I'm not 100% sure on the issue, you could run Memtest and see if it finds a bad chip.
Yep, either upgrade to 64-bit or live with the less-than-expected RAM. Though I wouldn't expect any big slowdowns or anything, since even 2GB is perfectly fine, 4GB is pretty much overkill.
Uh, no. Bytes go by systems of 2. 4096 = 4*1024, which is the standard size of a gigabyte. Only hard drive manufacturers go by "1000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte" for some reason. Also take into account that no matter what you're getting, it's almost never exact.
Vista 32 bit (as well as XP 32 bit) can only address 4GB of memory TOTAL. This should not be confused with the 4GB of system RAM in your motherboard. Total memory includes memory on other devices as well, such as your video card, sound card, PCI bus and other system resources. These resources are REQUIRED for the OS to function, so they take priority. However, if you add the 4GB of RAM on your motherboard to this memory, you end up with MORE than 4GB total, so the OS "ignores" some of your motherboard's RAM to be able to use the other devices' memory and stay under the 4GB limit.
This memory limitation is inherent to all 32 bit OSes. A 64 bit OS, on the other hand, can support up to 16 exabytes (17,184 gigabytes) of RAM. This, of course, is a theoretical limit. Microsoft has chosen to limit the maximum amount of memory its 64 bit versions of VIsta can support. Home Basic 64 can support up to 8GB. Home Premium 64 bit up to 16GB. Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate 64 bit can support up to 128GB of memory. These limitations appear to be arbitrary and more to do with marketing than technology.
[QUOTE="KSlater85"]I don't know that I need 128 GB of ram... :PZBoater
Imagine checking system properties and "only" seeing 126. I'd be upset.... :roll:
Word... The silly thing is I have x64 and only 1 GB of ram :shock:... I think I need to upgrade a bit... BTW. Why is nevermind... I'll start a new topic..
Here... Just a question I want answered if you don't mind. A question for ZBoater so no one else has to click it and I don't change the topic here :P
Um what was the topic again? Oh yeah.. x86 and 4 GB of ram... Why don't people just get x64?
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