Windows Only Detecting 2.8gb?

iKettles · 25 Dec 2007 at 17:29

Hi guys, I've just upgraded to 4GB of OCZ Reaper and it works fine; CPU-Z is detecting the full 4GB which is nice however windows is only detecting 2.8GB. I understand only having a 32bit OS it won't detect the full 4GB but I thought it would detect 3.25GB?

iKettles · 25 Dec 2007 at 18:12

Thanks for the support guys, I'm just wondering if Windows can't see the full 4GB can I still utilize it?

iKettles · 25 Dec 2007 at 19:00

It's a shame I can't use all the RAM, seems like quite a worthless upgrade now

I'll probably format when I upgrade to Penryn.

iKettles · 25 Dec 2007 at 19:34

You can see my specs in my sig, are their suitable drivers for 64 bit XP for that hardware? And applications that I download, do they have to be 64 bit or can I use 32 bit versions aswell?

iKettles · 25 Dec 2007 at 22:48

Well I'll be going to Penryn early next year, Vista should have improved even more then so I'll probably upgrade to that.

iKettles · 26 Dec 2007 at 14:46

WJA96 said:
Vista 64 is a disaster for enthusiasts - LOADS of stuff won't run because of the unsigned driver issue.

No CoreTemp (although PCWizard 2008 runs fine)
No TAT
No graphics card overclocking tools (that I have found yet)
No RAMDisk
No Virtual Machine
No SandboxIE
(the last three are hugely useful for software developers as they allow a completely decoupled development environment)

Now, I do appreciate that I can boot my machine with signed drivers switched off by using F8 during boot, but as I like to run my machines permanently 'up' they crash when Windows discovers the unsigned drivers and decides to overwrite them with 'good' code. Very definitely not stable behaviour.

I've been a Microsoft platform developer for almost 15 years now - using everything from Windows 3.1 and DOS onwards and Vista is now so difficult to develop applications for (unless you are using Microsoft's own crippled tools) that I'm genuinely considering giving up. I can appreciate that they want to kill off 3rd Party RAD tools, but the prospect of being forced to develop for .Net rather than at the assembly code level just annoys me.

I thought there was some kind of crack for Coretemp for Vista?