Vista and Quad core CPU

[mikeyhsd]

the problem is motherboard/bios dependent for the problem to occur.

it is not a general problem for ALL vista installations.

in fiact some sound cards even have problems with drivers when there is 4gb or more memory installed.
that is not vista's fault either.



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I'm just stunned reading this, the amazing new Vista cannot be installed with
more than 4gb ram and you have to mess about and either disable some in the
BIOS or take some out if you want to install the OS.

Seriously, stunned.....

What a dreadfull, dreadfull OS VISTA is !

Oh and yes, I have had it installed, Ultimate x64 and yes I did remove it to
put back on XP for games and dual boot with Mandriva for office related work.

To the OP, dump vista and run with a dual boot XP and Mandriva instead -
forget about Vista, the OS is dead before it's even begun.

 

[JW]

If the MOBO does not support memory addresses above 4GB then there is no way
Vista can.
I am not aware of any Vista 64 problems supporting more then 4GB as long as
the MOBO supports more also.
However, there is no way Vista 32 can support more since the maximum address
available with 32Bits is 4GB.