"Mark" <jmhonzell> memory address?

[miss-information]

Your reply to the post: "4GB shows 2GB in Vista Ultimate 32bit" leads me to
think you know what your talking about.<g> My problem is in understanding
why I have a conflict with the PCI Bus and memory. In Device Manager >
System devices > PCI Bus > Properties > Resources > Under Resource Settings

Resource Type > One of the assigned Memory Range is 80000000 - FFFFFFFF,

(it has a red circle with a slash). Farther down on the property sheet is:
Conflicting Device List: Memory Range 80000000 - FFFFFFFF not available.
What causes this? The only problem I have been having is my PC will not wake
from S1 / S3. I think that is a Nvidia driver problem. Any ideas?

Vista Ultimate, 2GB ram, PCI-E 7600GT, ASUS P5B Deluxe mb.

m

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

0x80000000 - 0xFFFFFFFF is the range of addresses usually assigned to the
PCI bus. Within that there can be several reserved areas for devices that
are on that bus, including the address range used by video. You may be able
to isolate the conflicting area by checking hardware resources under
MSINFO32.

The problem in returning from sleep mode are usually related to drivers not
supporting the function correctly. It may simply be a matter of waiting
until all the drivers needed for the hardware on your system are updated by
the manufacturer to do so (many currently do not, and the drivers supplied
by Vista during setup often only provide for basic functionality).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Mark]

Thanks for the vote of confidence!
(But, knowing one piece of information doesn't make me an expert in
computers.)

Anyway, as Rick stated, some hardware merely claims addresses without
"disabling" the system RAM for those addresses. It becomes a "portal" for
the attached device when connected.

So, onwards...
(While I'm taking a stab at it, do not assume this is the problem.)
If you look under Control Panel and search "Event" you can open the Event
log.
Look under Error for any critical errors.

Most likely, the error you are receiving is associated with the ACPI and
will say something like:
IRQARB: ACPI BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot 13,
function 0. Please contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

This is a noted issue with PCI-E addressing for unused PCI-E slots and
motherboards designed to use SATA drives but no SATA drives are connected.
Most people can ignore these particular critical errors which should only be
received when you reboot the machine and typically occur in groups equal to
slots and drives open.

In your case, you may actually have a conflict. Those who do have an issue
here usually see it as a "wake-up" problem with their PC.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;930062
(This article will not solve your problem, but it might give you more
insight.)

Additional troubleshooting will probably be needed.
Do you have multiple PCI-E devices installed?
Is your video in the first PCI-E slot?
Do you have onboard video in addition to your video card?
How many, if any SATA drives are installed?
Do you have any other critical errors being logged? (Look here first)

Good luck!

 

[Mark]

Is the red X next to the memory 80000000 the only red X throughout all your
devices?
(It's painful, but check them one at a time.)

Good reading:
General Device Manager Information
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310126

Device Manager Error Codes and Resolutions
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310123/EN-US/