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    g50vt-x5 xp help!?!!?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by motok, Apr 23, 2009.

  1. motok

    motok Notebook Consultant

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    Ok so i switched to xp 32bit and I have all the drivers loaded up and everything good to go except that when i look into system properties it shows that I only have 3gb of ram even though i have 4gb...Any ideas?

    Another question was if anyone knows a good program to overclock my cpu? I only want to go up to 2.3ghz. Thats what direct console overclocked it to i believe... Help is really appreciated!!!!! thanks!
     
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    David NBR Random Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    You need a 64bit operating system in order to utilize 4GB of ram. a 32bit OS will only see 3GB.

    Why not just use direct console to do the overclocking?
     
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    motok Notebook Consultant

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    It doesn't work on xp =/ xp isn't so great anymore as i remembered it on my alienware...Will switch back to vista, its too much of a hassle to run xp and take advantage of this laptops high specs
     
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    I found some hassles with Vista too since it was 64-bit system and some of my programs just don't work with it. My solution was a dual boot with Vista & XP Pro. I partitioned each hard drive as two partitions and use one drive as Vista system & Vista data partitions, while the other drive is a XP system & XP data partitions. I allow the data partitions to be read by each system but don't let XP read my Vista partition. Works great!
     
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