How much Memory can Vista 32 bit support?

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Bill

Jon Acord said:
Tom: Because it is almost impossible to find some 64 bit drivers
for my
hardware.
As I study the problem further, I see that Windows 32 bit actually
does use
up to 4 GB of RAM. The system apparently reserves 1 GB of RAM for
use, such
as onboard graphics, etc.
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Your earlier post seems to suggest that 32-bit Vista has built-in
drivers for the Adaptec card. If so, have you tried installing the
64-bit version to see if it's supported? If not, then nevermind.

I was worried about drivers for my hardware too, but I found that
everything I have working in 32-bit is also supported in 64-bit "out
of the box". The only thing I will need later is a video driver.
 
D

daniel sawyer

I'm using vista ultimate and i have 4gb of ram in my PC , i am using a program called PC booster and it said i have 2047 Mb total memory , when i was using xp 64 it said i have 4094 Mb total memory so i do not believe that windows visa 32 bit supports 4gb

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Guest

daniel sawyer said:
I'm using vista ultimate and i have 4gb of ram in my PC , i am using a program called PC booster and it said i have 2047 Mb total memory , when i was using xp 64 it said i have 4094 Mb total memory so i do not believe that windows visa 32 bit supports 4gb

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It supports 3 gig, and says it will support more. I think your problem is
that you feel the need to use "PC Booster" - a completly pointless program
that does absolutley nothing on a Vista PC (and hardly anything on an XP
machine.)

To know what ram you have ACCURATELY, right-click My Computer in Start menu,
and choose properties. There you will find your "Vista Expeirence Rating".

Below that, your actual RAM amount, minus the couple of megs as usual.

Uninstall PC Booster- Vista is completly different from previous versions.
It is unneeded.
 
J

John Whitworth

Bif VanDerFluffy said:
It supports 3 gig, and says it will support more.
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Well, it does support 4 gig of memory...it's just that you can't allocate
all of that to RAM, as it's required for the gfx and chipset etc. My machine
with a 256MB video card will allow me to have 3.2GB of RAM. I doubt many
people will see much higher than that with 32-bit Vista. Perhaps 3.3GB with
a 128MB video card...any less though, and Vista isn't going to be worth
having!

JW
 
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Brian W

John Whitworth said:
Well, it does support 4 gig of memory...it's just that you can't allocate
all of that to RAM, as it's required for the gfx and chipset etc. My
machine with a 256MB video card will allow me to have 3.2GB of RAM. I
doubt many people will see much higher than that with 32-bit Vista.
Perhaps 3.3GB with a 128MB video card...any less though, and Vista isn't
going to be worth having!
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I get 3582MB with a 320MB graphics card, maybe I'm the lucky one!
 
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Micah

Well, its sad to see misinformation out there about 32bit 4gb limits... Its VERY sad...

Its an **OPERATING SYSTEM LIMIT**. Not a hardware/bios/32bit/etc limit.

I have 8GB of memory in my desktop system. Guess what. All 8GB are being seen FINE by Debian, Ubuntu-Server, and FreeBSD; all of which are, get this.... 32bit OS's!

So, tell me again how this isn't a MASSIVE oversight by Microsoft?
 
M

Micah

****All 32bit operating systems can see a maximum of 4GB. It is a mathematical
limit, not the OS.****



^^^^Well, its sad to see misinformation out there about 32bit 4gb limits... Its VERY sad...

I have 8GB of memory in my desktop system. Guess what. All 8GB are being seen FINE by Debian, Ubuntu-Server, and FreeBSD; all of which are, get this.... 32bit OS's!

So, tell me again how this isn't a MASSIVE oversight by Microsoft? How is this a mathematical limit? You are clearly wrong.

Next theory?
 
H

Hobbes

Micah said:
Well, its sad to see misinformation out there about 32bit 4gb
limits... Its VERY sad...

Its an **OPERATING SYSTEM LIMIT**. Not a hardware/bios/32bit/etc
limit.

I have 8GB of memory in my desktop system. Guess what. All 8GB are
being seen FINE by Debian, Ubuntu-Server, and FreeBSD; all of which
are, get this.... 32bit OS's!

So, tell me again how this isn't a MASSIVE oversight by Microsoft?
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What, pray tell, will ubuntu do with 8 GB ?
 
N

Nonny

Well, its sad to see misinformation out there about 32bit 4gb limits... Its VERY sad...

Its an **OPERATING SYSTEM LIMIT**. Not a hardware/bios/32bit/etc limit.

I have 8GB of memory in my desktop system. Guess what. All 8GB are being seen FINE by Debian, Ubuntu-Server, and FreeBSD; all of which are, get this.... 32bit OS's!

So, tell me again how this isn't a MASSIVE oversight by Microsoft?
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<plonk>
 
R

Roger Blake

Now, now Nonny. Micah just doesn't understand that his precious OpenSores
operating systems NEED that much memory to even approach being usable.

And trying to explain to him/her/it that the limitation is imposed by
Windows BECAUSE of the hardware limitation would be useless. He/she/it is
definitely NOT a hardware geek.

Although, if his/her/it's precious OS's really ARE trying to use all of it
with only 32-bits, that would explain those frequent Ubuntu freezes/crashes.

Roj
 
M

Mike Hall - MVP

Well, its sad to see misinformation out there about 32bit 4gb limits...
Its VERY sad...

Its an **OPERATING SYSTEM LIMIT**. Not a hardware/bios/32bit/etc limit.

I have 8GB of memory in my desktop system. Guess what. All 8GB are being
seen FINE by Debian, Ubuntu-Server, and FreeBSD; all of which are, get
this.... 32bit OS's!

So, tell me again how this isn't a MASSIVE oversight by Microsoft?
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The general consensus is that it is an x86 architecture limitation.

Some of us would be interested in being pointed to documentation which
disproves the above..


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C

Cameron Snyder

Drama queen! The 32-bit wide address allows the processor to address 2^32
bytes of memory, which is exactly 4,294,967,296 bytes, or four gigabytes.
This is the direct source of the four-gigabyte memory addressing limitation.

Just because these systems report your total system memory doesn't mean that
they address them.

in message news:[email protected]...
 
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ray

Drama queen! The 32-bit wide address allows the processor to address
2^32 bytes of memory, which is exactly 4,294,967,296 bytes, or four
gigabytes. This is the direct source of the four-gigabyte memory
addressing limitation.

Just because these systems report your total system memory doesn't mean
that they address them.
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A properly configured Linux kernel will. It's called PAE - physical
address extension.
 
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Roger Blake

F Oh'Ff vist- A said:
Mike Hall - MVP wrote:



Wow how scientific! The usual MVP ignorance..

read my posts and learn
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Learn what? How to be a clueless dick?

No thanks.
 
R

Roger Blake

F Oh'Ff vist- A said:
too late.. you are already one
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Wow, such a cutting comeback...

......not.

I don't mean to suggest that you are predictable, but there are as-of-yet
undiscovered tribes in the jungles of Africa that KNEW you were going to say
that. When the first visitors from outer space finally make contact, their
first message will be, "We knew F Oh'Ff vist- A was going to make a lame
comeback like that". It's probably even coded in the comments of the source
code for Linux 0.1, in Linus Torvald's own hand writing.
 

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