cant get vista 32 to see more than 2.8gigs :(

[yokomo]

I just upgraded to some nice and rather shinny ocz pc8000 4gb
booted up all fine ram runs good.
bios sees 4gb says 4gb available , load windoze so and check control panel 4gb so far so good.
enable PAE via bcdedit command , reboot and yet task man still says ive nly 2.8gb !!!
is ther some kind off issue with 780i chipset that cant do the whole address extension or do i need to change some bios setting to get it to work ?
failng that could i swap to 64bit and still keep my apps/games etc ?
thanks.

[ExodusC]

I would suggest changing over to 64-bit Vista.

Assuming you can find drivers for all of your hardware (nowadays, you almost always can), almost all 32-bit software runs just fine on 64-bit Windows.

[yokomo]

yeah that what i will mostly end up doing , just annoyingas 32 is mena tobe able t see the 4gb with PAE enabled .

[funk32]

I would suggest changing over to 64-bit Vista.

Assuming you can find drivers for all of your hardware (nowadays, you almost always can), almost all 32-bit software runs just fine on 64-bit Windows.

ya, any 32bit OS will read less then 3gb of ram,doesnt matter if its vista or not

[yokomo]

so has no one manged to get this PAE thing to work , i thought it was menat to add and extre 4bits to the addres to alow more ram ?
guess not.

[HuffPCair]

No you will not get all 3gb like they said just do 64 bit. I will never use anything else other then 64 bit. Almost everything works with it now, there are still a few programs that dont but i hardly run into that problem anymore

[yokomo]

No you will not get all 3gb like they said just do 64 bit. I will never use anything else other then 64 bit. Almost everything works with it now, there are still a few programs that dont but i hardly run into that problem anymore

:up:
sourcing 64bit drivers now !

[firebane]

yeah that what i will mostly end up doing , just annoyingas 32 is mena tobe able t see the 4gb with PAE enabled .

Incorrect.

It can free extra memory but in 32bit you'll never see a full 4gb of ram.

Your running a 780i chipset and don't say what GPU(s) you have either.

Between the GPU(s) you have the nvidia chipset its of no surprise.

[KELL5]

each 512MB graphics card has is mapped to sys ram (so 1024mb mapped)....then if you have a soundcard like x-fi it'll map another 64mb-128mb. What you see is what you have available to your 32bit OS. Like others have said, moving to 64bit would alleviate this and allow you to utilise the full 4gb of system ram.

[yokomo]

Ok so im oging 64 in the next day or so , can you do an upgrade (yes i know this is never the best route) or is a fresh install job . not that that the refomrat and stall takes long my raptor its the drivers etc etc

[KELL5]

personally I'd go with fresh install mate. afaik you can't upgrade from x86 to x64 but I may be wrong. I always prefer a fresh install though just to be sure everything is sweet. Like you said, it doesn't take long these days. I remember formats and installs from floppy and that was a nightmare :(

best of luck :)

[firebane]

personally I'd go with fresh install mate. afik you can't upgrade from x86 to x64 but I may be wrong. I always prefer a fresh install though just to be sure everything is sweet. Like you said, it doesn't take long these days. I remember formats and installs from floppy and that was a nightmare :(

I agree always better to do a full install than a upgrade as things are setup properly with no garbage left behind.

[yokomo]

yeah not long last time i did it under 30 mins only real hasle is the games and patches etc.
also just noticed how muhc a copy of vista has gone up !
like wtf my 32 bit prem was about £60 looking at nearly £90 now wtf !
edit..
cant see a x86 to 64 listed as an upgrade option on M$ site wonder if my 32 key will let me instal 64 ?

[pirateghost]

you should be able to get the 64bit upgrade for only 10 dollars and your key should work fine

[zanzabar]

Ok so im oging 64 in the next day or so , can you do an upgrade (yes i know this is never the best route) or is a fresh install job . not that that the refomrat and stall takes long my raptor its the drivers etc etc

it wont let u upgrade since your switching instructions, and your vista key will do x86 and x64 so u just need a 64bit disk and your good

[yokomo]

thanks guys glad i did it now nice clean install of 64 running , man this installs fast ! boot sup pretty snappy too altohugh there a re a few blank screen points but the little scolly bar is barely up before its gone again !

[KELL5]

nice one, good to hear your all sorted :)

[vengance_01]

nice. On the system in my sig, I only get 1 3/4 bars before I am basically in Vista.

[KELL5]

try boot timer guys http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Windows-Boot-timer-Download-37940.html

I can get this in vistax86 :)