Vista 32 Install Problems with ATI HD3850

External Since: Feb 11, 2008 Posts: 1

Hi - I am a newbie to the forum and appreciate any help offered. I have
a Supermicro X7DWA board with dual quad core processors and 12G of
memory. Vista Ultimate x32 will not install with the ATI HD3850. After
install and reboot I get the blue screen indicating a hardware error.
Safe mode does the same thing. Vista x64 installs cleanly with no issues
!!!

Thanks for any help.

Eric

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ericr

External Since: Jan 31, 2008 Posts: 26

Hi Eric,

Given the specifications of your computer, I cannot understand why you would
want to install a 32-bit version of Vista, especially as you have got 12GB of
RAM. Even if you were able to install it, a 32-bit version has an address
range of 4GB, which, after taking into account the addresses allocated to
system devices and I/O ports, would be a maximum of only 3.5GB of RAM. This
would leave a massive 8.5GB (at least) of RAM which would be inaccessible.
For what reason do you need the 32-bit version?
Dwarf

"ericr" wrote:

>
> Hi - I am a newbie to the forum and appreciate any help offered. I have
> a Supermicro X7DWA board with dual quad core processors and 12G of
> memory. Vista Ultimate x32 will not install with the ATI HD3850. After
> install and reboot I get the blue screen indicating a hardware error.
> Safe mode does the same thing. Vista x64 installs cleanly with no issues
> !!!
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Eric
>
>
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> ericr
>