Vista - installing home premium 64bit w/ 4g RAM

I keep reading about folks who needed to remove some sticks of ram before installing vista 64-bit. Is this mandatory? I have 4 gig of Ram and I really don't want to open up my box and remove 2 gigs, as my computer is large and I'd have to remove memory cooling, etc. (I know, lazy) Do some people with 4 gigs ram succeed in installing vista without removing memory?

I didn't have any issues installing Vista using 4 GB of RAM. Depending on
the motherboard and other hardware, sometimes it does need to be done,
though. I just personally haven't had to yet. I guess your best bet would be
to just go for it.

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I had no issues installing Vista Ultimate on an AMD Phenom PC w/4 Gig
installed. YMMV.
There is one thing I'd do, though, if I were you, before attempting the
install. Get rid of the overclocking. Get your OS installed and working
reliably, *then* do the overclocking. I've had personal experience where an
OS installation failed on overclocked hardware, then went fine with the BIOS
set to defaults. Many others have reported similar experiences.

Ok, thanks. I'll try the install with all my ram first and keep my fingers crossed. I agree about the overclocking, I have actually set everything back, my signature just doesn't reflect it.

For the record, I got the bsod, removed the 2 gigs memory, then everything went fine. It was worth a try.