Charlie
Mon May 19 09:54:32 PDT 2008
Also, just to be clear - there are some BIOSs that will make a change and
then continue on. They're relatively less common, and the typical AMI BIOS
will never do that. But I have seen them.
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Charlie.
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"Tony Sperling" <tony.sperling@dbREMOVEmail.dk> wrote in message
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> O.K. - that I didn't know. Thanks, got to check it out!
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> Tony. . .
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> "Zootal" <msnews@zootal.nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:%23iWmNMQuIHA.4952@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> In most bios setups, you can circumvent it by discarding changes as you
> exit
>> :-)
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>> "Tony Sperling" <tony.sperling@dbREMOVEmail.dk> wrote in message
>> news:uhtTPRMuIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> > Not to bicker, but exiting BIOS Setup executes a Cold-Boot by default -
>> > and
>> > I don't even think you can circumvent that in any way!
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>> > Tony. . .
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>> > "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote in
> message
>> > news:3C9BE828-471E-4D11-8091-18FBC01D4AB3@microsoft.com...
>> >> In order to gain access to the RAM that is otherwise hidden by the
>> >> addressing for built in things like video, etc., you need to make a
>> >> change
>> >> to your BIOS. Everyone version of BIOS seems to call it something
>> >> slightly
>> >> different, and there are some that don't have the capability for it.
> But
>> >> look for "remap" or "memory hole" or something similar and enable the
>> >> remapping.
>> >>
>> >> This will then require a full, hard, reboot.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Charlie.
>> >>
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
>> >>
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "karakazan" <karakazan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:24573910-6A90-493D-B4C0-4CDF12A37627@microsoft.com...
>> >> >I just upgraded my ram from 2 gig to 4 gig on an Acer 5680 laptop
> Vista
>> >> > ultimate x 64,As far as i know vista 64 should unleash the 4 gig of
> ram
>> >> > but
>> >> > what i see is installed memory 3gig ,total physical memory 3gig, how
>> >> > can
>> > i
>> >> > unleash the 4 gig?
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