Will 32 bit Vista recognize my full 4 GB RAM?

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10-08-2006, 09:13 AM
Speederlander

Will 32 bit Vista recognize my full 4 GB RAM?

Will 32 bit Vista recognize my full 4 GB RAM w/o having to make tweaks?
10-08-2006, 09:17 AM
cky2k6

yes. 32 bit vista is supposed to be able to recognize up to 16gb of ram.
10-08-2006, 09:20 AM
Speederlander

Danke.
10-18-2006, 08:02 AM
Pants

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Originally Posted by cky2k6

yes. 32 bit vista is supposed to be able to recognize up to 16gb of ram.

unfortunalty vista rc2 32x doesnt see my 4gig of ram:(

but vista rc2 64x does see my 4gig of ram:)
10-19-2006, 12:43 AM
Vapor

I have 3GB installed right now....and it recognizes a full 3GB sometimes and othertimes only 2.89GB.....so I do feel there is truth to varying reports that people are putting out about Vista and >2.5GB of RAM. Will it recognize 4GB? I think it's supposed to, but there's no guarantee with beta software.
11-11-2006, 09:38 PM
X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE

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Originally Posted by Speederlander

Will 32 bit Vista recognize my full 4 GB RAM w/o having to make tweaks?

I am running vista retail Ultimate and i have 4GB installed and it only reconizes 3070MB. This is the latest version of vista. Maybe 1 of these will.

vista versions:
business
businesn

maybe the two version above will support past 3.0GB
11-12-2006, 02:54 AM
slykid

i'm about to get that retail vista coming out monday and i got 2gb ram coming to add to my rig making 4gb see what happens
11-12-2006, 04:15 AM
Vapor

Probably will need the same tweaks that you had to use for XP.
11-12-2006, 05:31 AM
slykid

if vista ultimate supports it then you wouldn't need any tweaks,would you?
11-12-2006, 08:36 AM
X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE

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Originally Posted by slykid

if vista ultimate supports it then you wouldn't need any tweaks,would you?

Thats the problem 32BIT vista doesn't support pass 3GB of ram.
11-12-2006, 09:02 AM
XSAlliN

It's same as WinXp you need 64 Bit to see 4GB ram, that wasn't changed but here you have more support for 64 bit version then WinXP 64 bit.
11-12-2006, 04:24 PM
slykid

Linux will see all 4GB in 32-bit mode

Vista will see all 4GB in 32-bit mode

all 64-bit OS's will of course see it

Windows XP SP1 will see all 4GB

WindowsXP SP2 just won't. We've tried for months and months and have had probably 100+ guys coming back and telling us the same thing...it just won't work in XP SP2.

(be aware that you really don't want to go back to pre-SP2...just don't worry about seeing all 4GB at the moment as it is XP's problem, not any hardware problem....but Vista will relieve everyone of this problem, especially since 4GB in Vista will almost be a necessity)
this is from happy games dfi support
11-12-2006, 06:10 PM
X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE

Quote:

Originally Posted by slykid

Vista will see all 4GB in 32-bit mode

sorry that is incorrect
11-13-2006, 02:17 AM
slykid

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Originally Posted by X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE

sorry that is incorrect

well i'll be able to confirm that in a fews hours but i got that confirmation from DFI support on dfi streets forum
11-13-2006, 01:06 PM
slykid

i just put in the 4gb ram and the pc started beeping so i took out one 1gb and it boot but i'm running 5744 at the moment .gonna go to dfi streets and see if i need to do something else