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I've installed my new computer. The motherboard I'm using is the ASUS M2N32-SLI Premium Vista edition. I discovered to my surprise that MS hasn't fixed the 4gb limit on XP yet. It reads it as 3.25. There are some workarounds apparently but its not known if they work yet (specific tweaks meant for Win Server 2003).
I installed Vista 64 and had a lot of trouble initially. In fact, it was the reason I installed XP after. Vista's setup was giving me a stop message telling me the MB wasn't ACPI compliant (the board is ACPI 3.0 as a later found out).
The real problem was the 4gb of RAM. Corsair's website has terrific support and several people got V64 to load with three sticks of RAM even though Asus' manual doesn't say that's a legit combination.
Long story short I got it to load with 2gb only.
I found a patch at MS's website that the updater didn't initially pick up. All other manual patches related to this problem my updated machine refused to load so I assume they are already installed or out of date.
This patch failed to fix the stopping problem. Does anyone know if this is still a known issue with Vista 64 in general? I'm going to take a crack at updating to the Award BIOS Beta driver 0801 (general release 0702 is unstable apparently) as soon as I've fully recovered my old hard drive.
I installed Vista 64 and had a lot of trouble initially. In fact, it was the reason I installed XP after. Vista's setup was giving me a stop message telling me the MB wasn't ACPI compliant (the board is ACPI 3.0 as a later found out).
The real problem was the 4gb of RAM. Corsair's website has terrific support and several people got V64 to load with three sticks of RAM even though Asus' manual doesn't say that's a legit combination.
Long story short I got it to load with 2gb only.
I found a patch at MS's website that the updater didn't initially pick up. All other manual patches related to this problem my updated machine refused to load so I assume they are already installed or out of date.
This patch failed to fix the stopping problem. Does anyone know if this is still a known issue with Vista 64 in general? I'm going to take a crack at updating to the Award BIOS Beta driver 0801 (general release 0702 is unstable apparently) as soon as I've fully recovered my old hard drive.