Vista 64 Bit and 4GB Memory

[Guest]

I have Vista 64bit installed on a new computer. I have an ASUS P5P-E mother
board with and Intel 6600 CPU and 4x1GB memory modules. When using a utility
called CPU-Z it see's all 4GB of memory. The BIOS and Vista only see 3GB.
Do I need to use the memory remap feature? If so is there anything else I
need to do? I am not a genius on this stuff but I just assumed that with
64bit OS and CPU there would be nothing to do but load the OS and everything
would work! Thanks for any and all help!

 

[Simon Berube]

Would be nice!

I am not a genius on this stuff but I just assumed that with

 

[LaRoux]

If the BIOS only sees 3GB, I'm not sure how any application including Vista
is going to see more. Are you sure your mobo supports more than 3gb? Is it
possible you have a bad module that is getting mapped out?

 

[Qu0ll]

I have Vista 64bit installed on a new computer. I have an ASUS P5P-E
mother
board with and Intel 6600 CPU and 4x1GB memory modules. When using a
utility
called CPU-Z it see's all 4GB of memory. The BIOS and Vista only see 3GB.
Do I need to use the memory remap feature? If so is there anything else I
need to do? I am not a genius on this stuff but I just assumed that with
64bit OS and CPU there would be nothing to do but load the OS and
everything
would work! Thanks for any and all help!

Some motherboards allow you to physically install 4GB of RAM but only
support a maximum of 3GB (sometimes it's a chipset thing). You are correct
that with 64-bit Vista you should be able to just install the RAM and OS and
everything is fine but not if the BIOS is seeing less than 4GB.

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[Qu0ll]

Some motherboards allow you to physically install 4GB of RAM but only
support a maximum of 3GB (sometimes it's a chipset thing). You are
correct that with 64-bit Vista you should be able to just install the RAM
and OS and everything is fine but not if the BIOS is seeing less than 4GB.

Steve, are you sure the motherboard model is P5P-E? I can only find a
P5PE-VM on the Asus website which takes a maximum of 2GB RAM.

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-Q
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