xlphs Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 I customized the specs of my mac pro, I am not sure if this caused the problem, below are the specs I changed: 4GB RAM NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 3 HDD(I add another 2 myself) During the installation of XP everything went perfectly well, but when I was installing the drivers from the boot camp cd, it failed once, at that time I found out 2GB RAM is GONE. So I went into mac os, it shows 4GB RAM. Then I went back to XP and reinstalled the drivers, this time successfully. But still it shows only "1.98GB of RAM", and task manager shows only 2GB physical memory as well, everything else is alright expect RAM. Anyone knows what is the problem? And also, there are 4 devices not working properly, in case they concern my problem. Intel® 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 3 -25E3 Intel® 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 5 -25E5 Intel® 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 6 -25E6 Intel® 5000 Series Chipset PCI Express x4 Port 7 -25E7 btw, running XP is not slow at all(for the time being), expect a few time of blue screens out of no reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 You're using 32-bit Windows, right? For 4GB support, you'll need to install 64-bit Windows Have a read on this thread: http://forums.pcworld.com/forums/viewtopic...b13a3bd9cdca950 SABR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlphs Posted November 11, 2006 Author Share Posted November 11, 2006 Oh no...I just thought I could finally use back the old 32-bit softwares I was using 64bit XP before I got mac pro and that was NOT pleasant ||| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Oh no...I just thought I could finally use back the old 32-bit softwaresI was using 64bit XP before I got mac pro and that was NOT pleasant ||| Hehe, yeah... XP 64-bit has its advantages, but overall, I find it rubbish. There is mostly lack of driver support... XP should run just fine with 2GB though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Hehe, yeah... XP 64-bit has its advantages, but overall, I find it rubbish. There is mostly lack of driver support... XP should run just fine with 2GB though! Thats been fixed, i found all my drivers i needed as of late, and it would be worth it to move back to x64 to get the other 2gb of ram seen... and it runs 32bit programs fine.... it doesnt run 16bit programs... (dos...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlphs Posted November 12, 2006 Author Share Posted November 12, 2006 64bit XP doesnt run 16bit programs... Thats why I dont like it, I have some 16bit only softwares, including my PAD's music manager. anyway, SABR is right, it is just fine with 2GB RAM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drval Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 Actually 64-bit doesn't even run ALL of the 32-bit programs. It's really best IMO to stay away from 64-bit Windows at this time. BTW, 32-bit Windows will use the additional RAM -- it just can't address it as a larger contiguous block than 2GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 Actually 64-bit doesn't even run ALL of the 32-bit programs. It's really best IMO to stay away from 64-bit Windows at this time. BTW, 32-bit Windows will use the additional RAM -- it just can't address it as a larger contiguous block than 2GB. And it wont give any program access to more than 1gb.... and the only 32 bit programs it wont run are 32bit av and firewall... and ones that use 16bit installers... trust me, I run it.... and hl2 runs soo much faster... but other than that its basically just server 2003 set up like xp pro... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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