I disagree, I put Vista on a 2800+ Socket A CPU Standard Nvidia 2 Chipset Gigabyte Motherboard, with on board Sound and Lan, a Sparkle Nvidia 256MB 6600 AGP vidio card. It runs like a dream, Doom 3 plays great, burning home made movies with no extra software. Fantastic!
Running the same monitor that I was under XP Pro, the screen even appears clearer. (As I have been wearing glasses since I was seven, I always notice things related to good vision).
I used an upgrade version of Home Premium, installed clean as a whistle. The only hardware issue ( and that was Creatives fault not Microsoft) is no support for Sound Blaster Live 5.1 sound cards.
At this stage I'm only running 1GB of Ram, but the early reports I have heard say Vista runs fine with 4GB. (The 32bit version)
Windows XP and Vista 32 Bit with a P5B Deluxe will only see 3 Gig. In the BIOS under chipset options, NorthBridge the Memory remapping feature. If you have 4 Gig and 32 Bit OS it should be disabled (The OS will see 3Gig). If you enable it with a 32 Bit OS will only see 2 Gig, but a 64 Bit OS will see all 4 Gig. Microsoft has a Physical Address Extension (PAE) option for vista on the Microsoft knowledge base but i tried it and it did not work. Here is the link.
Also according to Microsoft, under some circumstances Vista will recognize 4GB of RAM.
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For Windows Vista to use all 4 GB of memory on a computer that has 4 GB of memory installed, the computer must meet the following requirements:
• The chipset must support at least 8 GB of address space. Chipsets that have this capability include the following:
• Intel 975X
• Intel P965
• Intel 955X on Socket 775
• Chipsets that support AMD processors that use socket F, socket 940, socket 939, or socket AM2. These chipsets include any AMD socket and CPU combination in which the memory controller resides in the CPU.
• The CPU must support the x64 instruction set. The AMD64 CPU and the Intel EM64T CPU support this instruction set.
• The BIOS must support the memory remapping feature. The memory remapping feature allows for the segment of system memory that was previously overwritten by the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) configuration space to be remapped above the 4 GB address line. This feature must be enabled in the BIOS configuration utility on the computer. View your computer product documentation for instructions that explain how to enable this feature. Many consumer-oriented computers may not support the memory remapping feature. No standard terminology is used in documentation or in BIOS configuration utilities for this feature. Therefore, you may have to read the descriptions of the various BIOS configuration settings that are available to determine whether any of the settings enable the memory remapping feature.
Note When the physical RAM that is installed on a computer equals the address space that is supported by the chipset, the total system memory that is available to the operating system is always less than the physical RAM that is installed. For example, consider a computer that has an Intel 975X chipset that supports 8 GB of address space. If you install 8 GB of RAM, the system memory that is available to the operating system will be reduced by the PCI configuration requirements. In this scenario, PCI configuration requirements reduce the memory that is available to the operating system by an amount that is between approximately 200 MB and approximately 1 GB. The reduction depends on the configuration.
APPLIES TO
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows Vista Home Basic
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Windows Vista Starter
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition
• Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit edition
• Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition
• Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition
• Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition
Windows XP 32 bit (OEM/Home/Pro) OS has an upper limet of 4GB of ram.
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Read up. It can't address it as standard.
It might accept 4Gb of RAM but a 32 bit OS can't address 4GB of RAM.
There's only two ways to run 4Gb+ ram and thats with a 64 bit OS or using PAE - Physical Address Extension which is downloadable from Microsoft. However, I personally wouldn't start playing around with PAE's as its not worth all the risk. Just upgrade your OS.
As for Vista sucking a$$, you clearly don't know what you're talking about and are obviously a Vista hater. ME was highly unstable, Vista is more stable than XP. The talked about lack of drivers is by and large b*ll. Some companies still don't have niche drivers but support overall is better than it has been for some previous OS. The only thing I can't get a driver for is my Nikon camera and even that I can get around with a card reader.
Vista still has some minor bugs but its a great OS and far MORE stable than XP. XP support will end a long time before Vistas as Microsoft have already scheduled it several times.
I love Vista and wouldn't go back to XP for anyone and its stability is its best feature!
Windows XP 32 bit (OEM/Home/Pro) OS has an upper limet of 4GB of ram.
Sighs.
Read up. It can't address it as standard.
It might accept 4Gb of RAM but a 32 bit OS can't address 4GB of RAM.
There's only two ways to run 4Gb+ ram and thats with a 64 bit OS or using PAE - Physical Address Extension which is downloadable from Microsoft. However, I personally wouldn't start playing around with PAE's as its not worth all the risk. Just upgrade your OS.
As for Vista sucking a$$, you clearly don't know what you're talking about and are obviously a Vista hater. ME was highly unstable, Vista is more stable than XP. The talked about lack of drivers is by and large b*ll. Some companies still don't have niche drivers but support overall is better than it has been for some previous OS. The only thing I can't get a driver for is my Nikon camera and even that I can get around with a card reader.
Vista still has some minor bugs but its a great OS and far MORE stable than XP. XP support will end a long time before Vistas as Microsoft have already scheduled it several times.
I love Vista and wouldn't go back to XP for anyone and its stability is its best feature!
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