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Originally Posted by astro744
I had 1GB of RAM and I upgraded to 4GB. XP is happy and sees all the RAM and allocates about 3.2 as free. Vista crashed after a few seconds of booting up. I ran in safe mode and ran msconfig and told Vista to use only 2GB. Now Vista is OK and reports 4GB and 2GB in different system properties dialogs. It looks like Vista seems to be a bit fussy with certain hardware.
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So is it actually using all 4GB?
I heard many reports of my model Acer having the same problem.
Rumour is that the Intel chipset is fine with 4GB RAM, but the Acer bios is only good for 3GB
Needless to say I only installed 3GB.
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Vista SP2 fails to install, something to do with third party disk management (Acer hidden recovery partition may be at fault). The web is full of Vista SP2 fails to install messages.
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Ahhhh.
Guess I'll be waiting then.