help with Xp 32bit and ram.

Sazabizc · September 17th, 2009, 04:46 PM

I will try the pae switch when I get home. They Have made a new Bios update so I will try that to and my chip set drivers are up to date.

shellofinsanity · September 30th, 2009, 03:52 AM

are those 1gb 8800gt's?. you have 4gb xp can read, 1gb is not used its part of windows itself, just say XP 32 can only see 3gb total. You see 1.49gb of ram. So ram is comming off the GPU's also. so take out one of the 8800's and your ram size will increase but its time to move on to a new OS.

Sazabizc · September 30th, 2009, 04:11 AM

Ya I was think about that. and no there 512 MB. I have move to a new os I have vista x64 I just use xp as my back up which I used two days ago because vista decided it did not want to boot up and then after I got vista working xps quits lol. What a day that was.

mkey · September 30th, 2009, 07:13 AM

Did XP even boot? Vista should fix the boot record.

Sazabizc · September 30th, 2009, 10:54 AM

I really don't know what happen to xp it would not boot just went to a black screen and siad windows was missing a file. I used the installer cd and repaired it works fine now.

bigal · October 11th, 2009, 07:53 AM

I would just wait for windows 7(release canidate) since it seems very stable, and is just as fast as xp in gaming. GTA IV and crysis did perform slightly better in windows 7(relaese candidate), by 2-3 frames only. Not tested on my computer.

Dyre Straits · October 11th, 2009, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by bigal

I would just wait for windows 7(release canidate) since it seems very stable, and is just as fast as xp in gaming. GTA IV and crysis did perform slightly better in windows 7(relaese candidate), by 2-3 frames only. Not tested on my computer.

Huh? Why wait on Windows 7 Release Candidate? It's been out for a few months already. I've been using it since ... what was it, May or June???

Or, do you mean the Official Release on October 22?

Sazabizc · October 11th, 2009, 08:08 PM

I really dont want w7 right now it's just vista sp3. I will get it after w7 sp1 or 2. Anyway shellofinsanity was right it was my 2 8800 gt that were taking up my ram. I don't use xp for gaming anymore I use vista ultimate x64 for gaming I just use xp for old games that do not run well or at all on a x64 os Like hero's of ww2 turok 2 unreal ect. And xp is a nice back up if vista were to quit and i needed my computer.

bigal · October 12th, 2009, 07:18 AM

oops!!! made a mistake in my last post, I meant that you should wait for the official release for windows 7, and I compared windows 7 release candidate and xp sp3 to gaming performance. This is off topic but is 45c too hot for a hard drive.

Dyre Straits · October 12th, 2009, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by bigal

oops!!! made a mistake in my last post, I meant that you should wait for the official release for windows 7, and I compared windows 7 release candidate and xp sp3 to gaming performance. This is off topic but is 45c too hot for a hard drive.

RE: Hard drive temp: It may depend on how well ventilated your case is. I have an excellent PC case for air cooling. I also have 6 HDDs stacked in the racks and the hottest one runs about 38C idle. That is, it's a storage drive. My system drive is running 37C at the moment.

I would say that 45C is not excessive if there's a lot of activity going on with the drive. But, do check for adequate cooling and airflow over and around the drive to see if you can bring it down any.