64 bit xp vs 32 bit for Athlon 64 with Asus A8N-VM CSM main board

[gs]

does nay one has experience installing 64 bit xp on a PC with Athlon 64 on
Asus A8N-VM CSM main board?

I just brought the PC with 3 SATA II drives and 2.5GB dual channel DDR RAM.

I am planning to strip the SATA drives with the built-in SATA RAID support.
Target use: production data keeping and development ( .net), Virtual PC or
server.

Should I stay with 32-bit XP?


Searching 64 bit in the newsgroup, I found only one instance of 64 bit and
did not work.


Thanks in advance for you opinions and experience.

 

[DL]

I guess you know that raid 0 has no redundancy, lose one HD, you lose all!
Just a comment, as you mention data usage.

 

[Guest]

I installed Win 64 on my ASUS A8v Deluxe with no real problem, but eventually
ran into driver problems. That, and the lack of 64 bit software, led me back
to 32 bit XP.
I'm willing to try again when 64 bit support improves.
You should probably check the 64 bit support group also.

 

[Mungo Bulge]

I had better luck than you searching news groups and came up with
basically the same thing as Hugh mentions:
Key word search: 64-bit XP "Asus A8N-VM"
"It's great to get on the 64-bit bandwagon, but for now it's probably
best to just run 32-bit XP if you're a Windows user. Think carefully
about whether or not you need 64-bit XP as it has some serious driver
support and app support issues (including virus scanners), plus it
lacks 16-bit WoW support."
But hey, what do we live for if not the folly of others.

|I installed Win 64 on my ASUS A8v Deluxe with no real problem, but
eventually
| ran into driver problems. That, and the lack of 64 bit software, led
me back
| to 32 bit XP.
| I'm willing to try again when 64 bit support improves.
| You should probably check the 64 bit support group also.
|
| "gs" wrote:
|
| > does nay one has experience installing 64 bit xp on a PC with
Athlon 64 on
| > Asus A8N-VM CSM main board?
| >
| > I just brought the PC with 3 SATA II drives and 2.5GB dual channel
DDR RAM.
| >
| > I am planning to strip the SATA drives with the built-in SATA RAID
support.
| > Target use: production data keeping and development ( .net),
Virtual PC or
| > server.
| >
| > Should I stay with 32-bit XP?
| >
| >
| > Searching 64 bit in the newsgroup, I found only one instance of 64
bit and
| > did not work.
| >
| >
| > Thanks in advance for you opinions and experience.
| >
| >
| >

 

[gs]

Thank you all. I suspected that 64 bit is not ready and you guys just
confirmed it.


As for lose one drive lose all is not different than using one single drive.
I was thinking of stripping the data work area with backup to some other
storage to mitigate loss potential. Furthermore, I was planning to use
SMART something in the BIOS and drives to keep data loss to minimum.

Now with further exploration, I just found out the a8n-vm-csm does not
support much other than stripping some or all drives. or simply mirror.
drives.