Vista won't install or boot with more then 3gb ram

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NOT TRUE
I have 4GB ram and both Vista Ultimate x86 and Vista Business x64
installed in about 15-20 mins. with NO problems at all, automatically
installing and configuring ALL mb components. Both Vista installs are
running flawlessly. AMD 64 X2 processor.
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This is a perfect example of why this group is so useless and annoying.

Charlie
 
Why is that useless? Confirmation that Vista does indeed boot and use more
the 3 gb of ram. The original poster said Vista did not.

Of course what he should have said was "my computer, running vista , wont
boot with more then 3 gigs of ram."

Kurt
 
No, honey buns, YOUR post is THE perfect example of why SOME posters, such as
yourself, are totally useless and utterly annoying.

The OP had unequivocally asserted that Vista would not load or run on 4GB of
memory. I was merely asserting that he is wrong since both of my Vista
installs, x86 and x64, were installed without problems and are running
perfectly.
 
John Barnes said:
Make sure you have the latest BIOS, that the BIOS memory settings are
correct including those for the 'memory hole' if available on your BIOS.
Then assuming you have a large enough partition (remember that certain
files are created based on the amount of memory, such as the pagefile and
hiberfile) you've done all you can. Also at those levels of memory you
should consider the 64-bit versions. Remember that the BIOS handles the
addressing of the additional BIOS's for devices on your system and can set
them beyond where the x86 systems can address them (PCI bios, video card
bios, etc.)
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Bob, my brother in law has home premium, not available in 64bit on his copy
i think.
 
Cal Bear '66 said:
No, honey buns, YOUR post is THE perfect example of why SOME posters, such
as yourself, are totally useless and utterly annoying.

The OP had unequivocally asserted that Vista would not load or run on 4GB
of memory. I was merely asserting that he is wrong since both of my Vista
installs, x86 and x64, were installed without problems and are running
perfectly.
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Ok, My brother in laws pc won't boot or install vista with more then 3gb
ram.
 
Perhaps he needs a BIOS update? A faulty RAM module? A BIOS setting?

Vista x86 and Vista x64 can, and does, install easily and run without problems
on some (most?) systems with 4GB of RAM.
 
Frank said:
Can't answer the OP's question huh? Who would have thought!
You need to dl a brain but I don't think you could figure out how to do
that even if one was available.
Also the OP is a gamer in which I case I don't think linux will do.
Of course you forgot to read that part right?
Frank
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ROFL! Did you even read the post you are replying to?

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Cal Bear '66 said:
Perhaps he needs a BIOS update? A faulty RAM module? A BIOS setting?

Vista x86 and Vista x64 can, and does, install easily and run without
problems on some (most?) systems with 4GB of RAM.
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as i sais we updated to the newest 1002 bios and the ram is good.
 
AMD said:
Why won't vista install or boot with more then 3gb ram?

my brother in law has 4 gb ram. It starts with a G I think. Intel E6600 dual
core. asus p5n32-sli-e motherboard.

vista home premium. also another person posted the same hardware cept didn't
say what board he has. he had ultimate vista. same problem.

when installing vista it won't get past the scrolling bar from the boot dvd.
it bsod. both people get same error. the ram is good too. you boot from dvd.
then it starts to show you the scrolling bAR WHILE IT TRIES TO LOAD the boot
dvd. it bsod everytime with all 4gb in the pc. take out one stick of ram for
4gb it works fine. put in stick of ram to make it 4gb after it is installed
and it won't boot up at all. take ram out for 3gb only and it works fine.
all ram is 100% good.
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I have the same mobo and cpu as your brother in law and 4Gb of Corsair
Dominator PC8500 Ram. The only problem I had was that I orginally used Geil
which I'm guessing is what your brother in law has got judging by you saying
"I think it begin with a G", that the older versions of Geil memory had a
compatibility issue especially when large amounts were installed on Vista.
Geil did offer at one point an exchange for reprogrammed modules but I don't
know if they are still doing that.

I didn't wait and sold mine on and got the Corsair instead, which Vista
installed with no problems apart from it can only see 3070mb in Vista but the
full 4Gb shows in the Bios.
Now does anyone know how to correct this in Vista as you could easily do it
in XP by adding the /PAE switch to the boot.ini file, this will access the
full 4GB, but will limit 2GB to the OS and 2GB to other programs. Or if you
add the /3GB switch after the /PAE it will allocate 1GB RAM to the OS, and
3GB to all other apps in Control Panel/System/Advanced Start up and Recovery
but you can't do that in Vista anymore I can see apart from using DOS!
 
Sirrus said:
I have the same mobo and cpu as your brother in law and 4Gb of Corsair
Dominator PC8500 Ram. The only problem I had was that I orginally used
Geil
which I'm guessing is what your brother in law has got judging by you
saying
"I think it begin with a G", that the older versions of Geil memory had a
compatibility issue especially when large amounts were installed on Vista.
Geil did offer at one point an exchange for reprogrammed modules but I
don't
know if they are still doing that.

I didn't wait and sold mine on and got the Corsair instead, which Vista
installed with no problems apart from it can only see 3070mb in Vista but
the
full 4Gb shows in the Bios.
Now does anyone know how to correct this in Vista as you could easily do
it
in XP by adding the /PAE switch to the boot.ini file, this will access the
full 4GB, but will limit 2GB to the OS and 2GB to other programs. Or if
you
add the /3GB switch after the /PAE it will allocate 1GB RAM to the OS, and
3GB to all other apps in Control Panel/System/Advanced Start up and
Recovery
but you can't do that in Vista anymore I can see apart from using DOS!
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My brother in law has GSkill ram.
 
My brother in law has GSkill ram.
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I have GSkill ram and upgraded from 2 gigs to 4gigs and Vista kept
crashing. (BSOD) Same exact ram, model number ect. . No problem in XP
at all. Put ram in other pc and Vista is fine. Ran Memtest all night
with zero errors.
So why is Vista crashing with 4gigs
 
Lisa said:
I have GSkill ram and upgraded from 2 gigs to 4gigs and Vista kept
crashing. (BSOD) Same exact ram, model number ect. . No problem in XP
at all. Put ram in other pc and Vista is fine. Ran Memtest all night
with zero errors.
So why is Vista crashing with 4gigs
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This sounds like Vista was ruched out WAY too early since so many people are
having Vista and 4gb ram problems.
 
Because Vista loads empty ram with stuff it thinks you are going to use, ie
pre-caching. It therefore uses more memory.

Xp doesnt. You probably were never going over 2gigs in use, in XP, whereas
in Vista, it WILL use whatever free memory you have to speed things up.

A case in point....

My motherboard is a Soyo P4x400. I was running XP with 2 sticks of matched
512 meg ram, and 1 stick of another brand of 512meg. It ran fine.

I upgraded to Vista, and got all kinds of random bsods or resets.

I researched the problem (when to Soyo site), and read the .psd for my
mother board. Guess what....
My mother board, even though it has 3 slots, doesnt support 3 512 sticks,
just the 2. But it worked in XP, because XP almost never went over a gig in
normal use (and now that I think of it, it did crash occasionally when I
went bersek and had a ton of stuff going at the same time, but that was so
infrequently it didnt register with me as a problem.)

I brought 2 1 gig sticks for my board, and ditched the 512s. Its running
fine now, in Vista.

Kurt


Kurt
 
Scissor said:
You are hitting up against the 4 GB total addressable memory limitation
inherent in the 32-bit version of Vista/XP. While the 32-bit versions
of Vista/XP can address a total of 4 GB of memory, device drivers need
to use some of that address space for memory mapping. Device drivers
start at the "top" of the 4 GB address space and work their way down.


Click here for more info: 'The system memory that is reported in the
System Information dialog box in Windows Vista is less than you expect
if 4 GB of RAM is installed'
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us)

You may be able to change a setting in your computer's BIOS to allow
you to successfully install with 4 GB installed but 32-bit Windows will
only "see" and use about 3.12 GB of the installed memory.

The short answer is to either remove 1 GB of RAM or install a 64-bit
version of Vista. I went with the latter choice myself.

Hope this helps.
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I know this. But it should have no problem installing even if it won't show
you the 4gb.
 
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