Hey everyone, My ram came in today, I just ordered another 2gigs and for some reason it says i have a total of 2,813 which isn't anywhere near 4 gigs. Are one of my sticks borked? Running 680i board windows vista ultimate 32bit I'm going to take out my old pair out and just try these 2 and see if it is borked or if there's something not allowing it to work any ideas??
I think I remeber reading something about 32bit systems not showing all the ram. It was something about 64 bits systems will use all of ot but not 32? I'm not sure, it was far back. You can run a memory test to see if the ram is good. Also make sure it's clicked in good. and it's the same type of memory. Only things I can think of. Oh Devastaion posted.. lol.. sorry was on phone. I found this also. kind of explains it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us
I thought that a 32bit OS can support up 4gb's of ram? and a 64bit can support of 128gb's? my system detects all my sticks but isn't using about 1.2gigs of it? So I guess a 32bit can never utilize the whole 4 gigs? , go figure ;( ;( ;(
32bit OSes can only natively support 2GB. 32bit programs can only use 2GB there are work arounds and hacks like PAE but none are perfect and a lot of it depends on your board. basically the amount of RAM that can be used is tied to the width of the CPUs registers. under 32bit OSes 64bit CPUs are running under their legacy 32 bit mode. part of the reason why i said it was probably a waste for you to buy more RAM. unless you're doing a lot of stuff under 64 bit OSes and are the type who compiles, converts, does cad or runs typical server work loads 4Gb is largely worthless as compared to 2Gb. as for RAM support, the max a 64bit OS can support is 17,179,869,184. most OSes we have today however don't support nearly that much.
This is your problem [/b][/quote] I concur. [/b][/quote] fixed and emphasized. under pretty much every *nix-like OS(linux, BSD, OSX, solaris etc.) the same limit applies. I honestly hope for an immediate shift towards 64bit OSes but it hasn't been smooth so far. I blame MS for making a 32bit version of vista. Greedy money whores. Should have just saved on R&D and only made on version and then ported updates to an ----- version of XP at a cost.
I think your manufacturer should have your drivers at their site so everything should work after you DL them
FYI you should be able to get the 64bit version for like $10 from M$ if you're able to prove you have the OEM 32bit version. if you don't game much, then it's almost perfect since the only real downside to vista 64 over 32 is that the graphics drivers suck.
That's going to be a problem then. I do quite a bit of gaming and if the graphics drivers really suck, I can't utilize my 8800gtx =-/. Maybe I'll return my ram or just keep it for the future, when I do upgrade to 64bit. Don't know yet..... ( I did get a good deal on my ram any who, with MIR and all... )
