Are you using a 32bit os or 64bit? If its 32bit, get a 64bit version. If 64bit, try to save your bios configuration and then reset the cmos. Restore your bios config afterwards.
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Thanks guys. I forgot about this. I used to have a 64-bit OS, then I got an SSD, and it changed to a 32-bit.
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Thanks guys. I forgot about this. I used to have a 64-bit OS, then I got an SSD, and it changed to a 32-bit.
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There certainly could be. In fact, there was some rumors going around about a year or so ago that Microsoft wanted Windows 8 to debut with a 128bit version.
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Because 128-bit Intel processors totally exist.
I don't think most applications would benefit from 128-bit words anyway; the applications that can use SSE extensions. Not to mention that RAM density technology is NOWHERE close to allowing you to hit the memory addressing limit of 64-bit. And if you are, you're building your supercomputer wrong.
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Doesn't matter if they exist yet or not. They very well could exist, if there was a demand for such a processor.
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You win nothing, because you don't use that much......just if you do video/photo editing maybe you use it.
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i use it with maya autodesk and udk... why would i get 32GB if i wouldn't use it...
(udk uses a heck tonne of RAM if you put its features all the way up and build huge chunks of terrain pathing and production level lighting all whilst editing in kismet and particle systems and similar with maya autodesk, just on different systems)
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Its not that bad of a memory hog. Uses the same amount as Win7. It just seemed like such a big memory hog because people insisted on having all the bells going and expected the same footprint as XP. Its also the reason it got as much flack as it did, because manufacturers would take a machine spec'ed to run XP, and toss Vista on it so the OS would be starved of memory. Add to that, that it was the first mainstream OS that was 64bit... and it was a perfect storm of clusterfuckery(tm).
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I know a Microsoft Ex-Staff member who told me they even thought Vista was a rubbish failure... but used it as a stepping stone for Windows 7 (which was started before it, meant to be created from scratch but ended up having components of Vista injected into it - making it the fixed version of what Vista was spos to be, taking into consideration what people liked / hated in Vista). A major issue concerning Vistas memory usage was due to the fact they preloaded all services even when not being used, also data was placed into system memory then transfered over to graphic card memory. Windows 7 addressed these issues, bypassing the system memory all together and late loading services only when in use.
They suggested with Vista for users to have double the memory than that of Windows 7. Windows XP is actually higher performance and less memory usage than both, but less graphics.
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lol no. Even the best SSD on the market has a data rate of maybe 600 MB per second at best?
1600 MHz DDR3 RAM has a data rate of 12 to 13 GB per second. That's 20x the read/write speed.
Even if they managed to make an SSD that ran 10x faster than anything available today so that it could max out the 6 GB/s SATA II connection, that would still be only half as fast as the RAM read/write speed.
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Flash Memory = NVRAM. That means Non Volatile Random Access Memory. Which means it is indeed a form of RAM.
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Also, they sell regular HDDs that max out the Sata 2 connection.
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First, nobody cares about SATA 2, that's like 10 year old tech, SATA 3 has been out for a number of years now. Second, as I said the fastest SSD's on the market are around 600 MB/s, which is only 1/20th the read/write speed of standard 1600MHz DDR3 RAM. Calling an SSD "RAM" is like comparing a Toyota Corolla an Formula 1 car. Sure, they're both cars, technically. But they're in completely different leagues and the comparison makes absolutely no sense at all.
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1) You brought up the SATA 2 connection, not me. 2) I don't care about what you think about it's read/write speed, it is RAM. That is not up for debate. I don't care if it had the read/write speed of a floppy disk, it's still RAM.
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Also, as someone said, the 6Gb/s connection is actually 750MB/s, so SSDs are pushing the limits of the Sata 3 6.0 Gb/s connection.
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ALSO, you can buy DRAM SSD's, which is literally just DDR3 RAM with an external power source, so yes, SSDs are as fast as your 1600MHz DDR3 RAM.
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um... i only have SSD's and they are in no-way comparable to the speed of RAM... i have a RAID-0 in this comp and normal dual SSD in my laptop, the fastest however is cache but due to it being super expensive, even top of the line computers only get about 8 megabytes of it.... mine has 6 megabytes cache
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I just said that to get that fast you have to have DRAM SSD's, which are special SSD's that use actual DRAM, and require a constant power source to keep your information loaded into the memory.
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but the real question is do you use the 64GB or not, if you have 64 but only ever use 16 that is dumb... i use all mine on an almost daily basis
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havent you noticed that before the new ones you still had 8 total (3.15 usable) the rest of the 5gb ram was waste all the time.. because you must be using 32bit Operation system. you have to format and install 64bit OS to make use of the ram that extends 3.15gb, thats the only option, there is nothing else you can do.
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I had a 62-bit os before too. I installed the wrong one when i got an ssd causing this problem.
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Really people? It's not about the 32/64 bit operating system... if he can't get to the motherboard bios screen then there is definitely something wrong with the ram sticks or he messed with something else while putting them in.
If you have more than 4gb of ram on a 32 bit windows operating system it will blue screen when it tries to load windows.
With the problem with usable ram/installed ram, look here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978610
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not true, it only activates the amount of RAM it can use and any sticks which put it over the 4GB limit it will deactivate, therefore, if you have a 2GB stick and an 8GB stick, it will deactivate the 8GB stick and run with only 2GB's of RAM
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You have to use a 64 bit system, try to read the motherboard for supported RAM configuration and try to use only the new ones in the same slots used by the previous ones to check whether the new RAM modules are working.
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I had 8 gigs of RAM in my rig (2 x 4gb). Everything was going fine. Then I wanted more RAM so I bought 2 more sticks of the exact same RAM. I try plugging them in, and it fails to boot (start to turn on, but couldn't get to MOBO screen). By changing out the sticks, I figured out that one of the new ones is dead. Now I try booting with just 3 sticks of RAM. It seems normal, but in the system screen on control panel it says I have 12gb RAM. but only 3.15gb usable. I reseated and rearranged stuff, and got the same result. I took out the other new RAM stick, and got the same result. this time it said 8gb RAM, 3.15 usable. I looked in task manager at the RAM usage and it says that 4.962gb is Hardware Reserved. I reseated and rearranged the two old sticks again, same thing.
What do?
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