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    Pavilion DV5- RAM compatibility?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by TSamee, Jan 30, 2009.

  1. TSamee

    TSamee Notebook Consultant

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    My quest for a budget gaming rig has ended. With a DV5.

    It's pretty nicely specced out, but I won't go over the details, since the GPU and processor have nothing to do with it.

    It comes with 4GB of DDR2 RAM, but it's only running a 32-bit OS (or so the box says). Does that mean that only 3GB will be used?

    Oh, and if it does have a 64-bit version of Vista, there's another problem. My backup for my old system was for Vista 32-bit. Will this cause problems on a 64-bit OS? Microsoft support says that some models may face problems when running 32-bit backups on a 64-bit OS, but is this one of them?
     
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  2. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    yes, you will only be able to use 3-3.2Gb of your RAM with a 32bit OS.

    not quite sure what you mean with "backup".... backup program? backed up hard drive image?
     
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  3. TSamee

    TSamee Notebook Consultant

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    a back-up of my old system (a series of auto-run zipped files, made using the Windows backup utility)
     
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    orev Notebook Virtuoso

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    Your backup files will be fine. 32/64 bit has no effect on that.
     
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  5. TSamee

    TSamee Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks :D

    That sure takes a lot off my mind. I'll upgrade to 64-bit in a few months, and load up a backup of my files.
     
    TSamee, Jan 30, 2009
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