32 bit CPU to 64 bitPost Date: 2009-08-15 |
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spyritwind 
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 Topic: 32 bit CPU to 64 bitPosted: 15 Aug 2009 at 11:29pm |
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I currently have:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.67GHz 1066MGz FSB 4MB Cache Conroe
eVGA Core 2 Quad nForce 680i MOBO
nVidia GeForce 8800GTX 756MB
4GB DDR Super Talent 800MHz Dual Channel RAM
I purchased my system running Windows XP 32 bit.
I am now running Windows 7 64 bit.
My system recognizes the 4 GB of ram in my system, but only seems to be able to use 2.7 physical ram.
How do I get my system, CPU and MOBO (if that is needed) to use/recognize my full 4gb of ram? I basicly need my system to go 64 bit now instead of 32.
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skyR
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Posted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:06am |
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All Core 2 processors are 64 bit. You just need a 64-bit operating system to utilize more than 4GB of RAM. Are you sure you are running a 64-bit operating system? You need to do a fresh install of Windows 7 64-bit.
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spyritwind
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Posted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:51pm |
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Yes I'm definately running 64 bit OS. I down loaded some updates last night and here is what my system info is reading now.
Installed physical memory (RAM) 4 GB
Total physical memory 4 GB
Available physical memory 3.03 GB
Total virtual memory 8 GB
Available virtual memory 6.53
Above that my system type is x64 based pc
However I'm also showing a system directory C:\windows\system32
I also have two program file folders on my C drive. One is Program Files and the other is Program Files (x86)
Some thing just doesn't seem right. I reformated my drive and set up Raid 0 with my two 250GB hard drives and for some reason Windows 7 64 wasn't taking it and I wasn't able to move forward. A friend of mine came over to assist and although he had the same Windows 7 on his system he initially couldn't get Windows 7 to load on my system either.
He asked for my original system disk which I gave to him along with a 3.5 floppy that had Raid 0 drivers on in. At one point for a brief moment my system read some thing off of the old system disk and then later it read off of the raid 0 disk. At that point I was able to load windows 7. It just wouldn't take off on it's own for some reason.
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spyritwind
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Posted: 16 Aug 2009 at 2:19pm |
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More quasi info. The program I'm using is Windows 64 and certain screens do indicate this, but there are other applications that when I run them are making refference to win32 :( If I were to geuss I'm some how running Windows 7 64 on top of a 32 bit system in other respects. I have no idea. As you can tell I'm not a techie. I just wish we could have have gotten Win 7 to accept my bios changes to raid 0.
If what I've typed doesn't seem right and there is a problem will a fresh install of Windows 7 resolve the matter or is there more involved? I could keep speculating, but I'll wait for another reponse at this point.
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skyR
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Posted: 16 Aug 2009 at 3:29pm |
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There might be an option in your BIOS called memory remapping that needs to be enabled.
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