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    Sager 9260 and 4GB RAM in XP Pro x64?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Klintan, Aug 7, 2007.

  1. Klintan

    Klintan Newbie

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    PC Torque says:
    "Sager is telling me that you cant utilize 4GB in XPro even with 64 bit."

    Is this true? Where does this limitation come from?
    I have searched the forum for an answer but can't find one.

    Thanks!
     
    Klintan, Aug 7, 2007
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  2. Torque

    Torque Notebook Enthusiast

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    What I was told, only VISTA can see over 3gig. I have 4 gig in my system which is dual boot. The XP pro is only 32 bit, and can only see 2 of the four(It can't see even three). Vista sees it all, and now that I use SLi with VISTA, things are better. But not all games work with VISTA. Good luck on your quest, but I believe it won't be worth much trouble, XP PRO - 64 won't see the 4. :eek:
     
    Torque, Aug 7, 2007
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  3. Klintan

    Klintan Newbie

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    That's strange...

    I just got a reply from [email protected]:
    > I will utilize it, but there was no drivers for the XP Pro x64
     
    Klintan, Aug 7, 2007
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    LemurVomit Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah, that sounds about right. Any 64-bit OS will allow you to use scads more memory than you could possibly buy right now. I think XP-64 permits up to 128 TB or so, and theoretically, 64 bits would allow you to address up to 16 exabytes (16 billion GB) if the operating system permitted it.

    And yeah, no one ever really wrote device drivers for XP-64, and when I say no one, actually quite a few companies did, but they were never a priority compared to XP-32 and later, Vista, so they tend to be buggier (driver bugs = BSODs) and less common than 32-bit XP drivers. _Some_ Vista-64 drivers work on XP-64, but it depends on the driver writers having deliberately written and compiled the drivers with backward compatibility in mind. This being a cutting-edge laptop, I imagine there are a bunch of components whose manufacturers didn't see any need to make the drivers backward compatible with XP.
     
    LemurVomit, Aug 7, 2007
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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  6. ExZeRoEx

    ExZeRoEx Notebook Consultant

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    Heh, you're worried about 4gb when it can handle 128.
     
    ExZeRoEx, Aug 7, 2007
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