Vista Ultimate & 4GB of RAM?

Has Microsoft gotten around the issues of having 4GB of RAM onboard? I
currently have 2 on my motherboard and have another 2 laying around
that I'm currently not using and was wondering if it would be worth it
to throw them in. Any problems/benefits in doing so? Thanks for any
forthcoming info!

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Depending on what devices are mapping themselves in
you will get access to about 3.12 Gig or less.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294418/en-us


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> Has Microsoft gotten around the issues of having 4GB of RAM onboard? I
> currently have 2 on my motherboard and have another 2 laying around
> that I'm currently not using and was wondering if it would be worth it
> to throw them in. Any problems/benefits in doing so? Thanks for any
> forthcoming info!
>
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<> wrote in message
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> Has Microsoft gotten around the issues of having 4GB of RAM onboard? I
> currently have 2 on my motherboard and have another 2 laying around
> that I'm currently not using and was wondering if it would be worth it
> to throw them in. Any problems/benefits in doing so? Thanks for any
> forthcoming info!

If you have 64 bit Vista and a 64 bit CPU/chipset/motherboard, then yes.
Otherwise you'll only see anywhere from 2.75 GB to 3.25 GB (give or take),
depending on various factors.

Mike

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:29:56 -0400, "Mike" <> wrote:

>If you have 64 bit Vista and a 64 bit CPU/chipset/motherboard, then yes.
>Otherwise you'll only see anywhere from 2.75 GB to 3.25 GB (give or take),
>depending on various factors.

Thanks for the info, Mike. I forgot to mention that I am running Vista
64 with a Core 2 Duo (E6850), Asus P5N-32E SLI Plus mainboard. I'll
pop them in tomorrow and see how it goes!

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On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 18:29:42 -0700, "Spirit" <>
wrote:

>Depending on what devices are mapping themselves in
>you will get access to about 3.12 Gig or less.
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294418/en-us

Thanks for the links!

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4GB RAM here, Vista Ultimate x86 sees 3.4GB, Vista Business x64 sees 4+GB -- NO
problems at all with either

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<> wrote in message
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> Has Microsoft gotten around the issues of having 4GB of RAM onboard? I
> currently have 2 on my motherboard and have another 2 laying around
> that I'm currently not using and was wondering if it would be worth it
> to throw them in. Any problems/benefits in doing so? Thanks for any
> forthcoming info!
>
> Avatar

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> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:29:56 -0400, "Mike" <> wrote:
>
>>If you have 64 bit Vista and a 64 bit CPU/chipset/motherboard, then yes.
>>Otherwise you'll only see anywhere from 2.75 GB to 3.25 GB (give or take),
>>depending on various factors.
>
> Thanks for the info, Mike. I forgot to mention that I am running Vista
> 64 with a Core 2 Duo (E6850), Asus P5N-32E SLI Plus mainboard. I'll
> pop them in tomorrow and see how it goes!

Try displaying your memory map with 2M & 4M inserted. I'd like to see the
results if you care to post them. Memory map is available through device
manager -> view -> resources by type -> memory. I install Microsoft's text
printer to create a text files of info like this.

-Paul Randall

I'm using 8GB on my Vista X64 dual quad-core Xeon and I still have 4 empty
slots. I'll be at 16GB in a few weeks.

The board will support 32GB but the 4GB sticks were way too much for now.

Dale
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MCAD C#
MCSE, MCDBA


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> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 18:29:42 -0700, "Spirit" <>
> wrote:
>
> >Depending on what devices are mapping themselves in
> >you will get access to about 3.12 Gig or less.
> >
> >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us
> >
> >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294418/en-us
>
> Thanks for the links!
>
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>

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:11:12 -0600, "Paul Randall"
<> wrote:

>Try displaying your memory map with 2M & 4M inserted. I'd like to see the
>results if you care to post them. Memory map is available through device
>manager -> view -> resources by type -> memory. I install Microsoft's text
>printer to create a text files of info like this.

I didn't see this until after I had already installed them, sorry.
Just looking under the System Info in Control Panel my Vista Ultimate
64 only sees 3GB, not the full 4. Things do run a bit more smoothly
and I can have more stuff open will less memory dumpage it seems...

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