will upgrading RAM require a reinstall to update HAL?

[johnm]

I'm currently running 1Gb of DDR2 RAM on a home built machine.
Installed Vista and so far no problems.

My questions is... if I upgrade and add another 1Gb of RAM, will this
require a new install?
Seems to me there was an issue with either Win2K or XP that if crossed a
certain line (total RAM) it required a reinstall to update the HAL [hardware
abstraction layer]

any ideas?

 

[Dustin Harper]

No, it shouldn't. There are certain other hardware changes (motherboard
change, etc.) that need to take place as well.


Dustin Harper
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[Mark Christopherson]

I just did the same thing. No issues on reboot.

 

[johnm]

actually, I remember what the issue was now...

when XP came out, I was running a single Pentium-class processor on a mobo
that had two sockets.
when I added a 2nd processor, -that's- when I had to reinstall to update the
HAL - it wasn't memory after all

thanx anyway

I just did the same thing. No issues on reboot.

I'm currently running 1Gb of DDR2 RAM on a home built machine.
Installed Vista and so far no problems.

My questions is... if I upgrade and add another 1Gb of RAM, will this
require a new install?
Seems to me there was an issue with either Win2K or XP that if crossed a
certain line (total RAM) it required a reinstall to update the HAL
[hardware abstraction layer]

any ideas?

 

[Yuriy Shkolnikov [MSFT]]

if I upgrade and add another 1Gb of RAM, will this require a new install?

From my own experience - I've done quite a few memory upgrades on Vista
systems and never run into a problem like that.

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Regards,
Yuriy

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