It is an Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard and the documentation reads
that it supports up to 8GB of ram. I do have their lastest bios
installed but their is no such option of memory remapping. They
advertise the motherboard for Vista so maybe they will have a fix with
their next bios update.
Al
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:23:11 -0400, jabloomf1230
<jabloomf@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
>What's your brand and model of MB? It's new enough (AM2) and it should
>have that option. If not, there may be a BIOS update for your MB that
>adds that option to the BIOS setup.
>
>The main problem with going to 4MB is that some of the earlier versions
>of nVidia Vista graphics drivers did not work properly with SOME
>graphics cards and 4 GB of system RAM. Else, there shouldn't be a
>problem with Vista x64.
>
>Alfred Kaufmann wrote: Quote:
>> Thanks for the information everyone! I have Vista 64bit, an AM2
>> motherboard and an AMD X2 64 processor but I can't find this "memory
>> remap" option in my bios. Also from what I have been reading this
>> upgrade is best avoided. :-(
>>
>> Al
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:26:20 -0700, "JW" <JW@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Quote:
>>> He will not need to use the page file until the programs/data required to be
>>> kept in memory use up all of the extra 2GB in his system.
>>> Alfred,
>>> If you are running Vista 32 you will probably only get the benefit of a
>>> little over 1GB of the extra memory you add. See the following:
>>>
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:ePqmPnM6HHA.4584@xxxxxx
>>>> Little to no improvement if you run "normal" applications.
>>>>
>>>> You will still need the pagefile.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Richard Urban
>>>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>>>> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Alfred Kaufmann" <al_kaufmann@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>> news:e7t5d31d3g5a1qstsm4ebgt8mdnsgbi65k@xxxxxx
>>>>> I am thinking of going to 4GB ram and I wonder if it is worth it? The
>>>>> only reason I am thinking of doing it is to turn off virtual memory
>>>>> and eliminate swapping on the hard drive.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know your experience if you have done this upgrade.
>>>>>
>>>>> Al
>>>>>
>>>>>