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Abit IP35 PRO - Memory Remapping?

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Arboreal

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I recently built a machine* for school (Digital Arts), I felt I needed to go with 4GB to handle multimedia stuff a little smoother - so I loaded up Vista x64 Business (through school). Smooth install and its operating nicely, but not recognizing 4GB!

I've looked around and it seems like enabling memory remapping in the BIOS is a common solution. I am not familiar working in the BIOS, and i'm wondering if anybody is running the IP35 with 4GB of RAM, and how they achieved it?


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Corsair 620W
Abit IP35 Pro
Intel Q6600 Quad Core
BFG 8800 GTX 768
OCZ 4GB (2x2) DDR2-800

Thanks!
 
I have the same motherboard and am looking to build a new system (just waiting for the cpu to come). I was wondering the same thing as you as far as where memory remapping is in the Bios. I don't see it anywhere in the manual. Have you had success in locating it?



Arboreal said:
I recently built a machine* for school (Digital Arts), I felt I needed to go with 4GB to handle multimedia stuff a little smoother - so I loaded up Vista x64 Business (through school). Smooth install and its operating nicely, but not recognizing 4GB!

I've looked around and it seems like enabling memory remapping in the BIOS is a common solution. I am not familiar working in the BIOS, and i'm wondering if anybody is running the IP35 with 4GB of RAM, and how they achieved it?
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My P5B Deluxe (965P) had an option in the BIOS.

My new Gigabyte DS3P must do it automatically because I can't find the option, yet I have 4GB.
 
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I am wondering about this also.


XP only shows 3GB of memory.

Anyone know what setting in the bios needs changed? I looked and can't find memory remapping.

Thx
 
if you are on XP 32-bit I don't that it would help you - it's more likely XP reserving memory for hardware addressing according to your installed hardware (at a guess for starters you have a gfx card with lots of RAM?).
 
I have an IP35-e and had no problems getting Vista 64 to recognize 4GB. I didn't have to change any bios settings. I'm using 2 2GB DIMMs.
Vista 32 also recognizes 4GB is installed, but only shows 3069MB as available.
 
a 32bit OS supports 4 billion memory adresses (IE 4 gigabytes) total excluding page file. This has to include L1, L2, L3, the hdd cache, the video card cache, a couple other things, and lastly, the system ram.

And this really grinds my gears: the major OEMs, the people who really decide what direction the swarm of end users go in, figured it would be easier to custom engineer 1.5gig sticks then push a 64bit operating system on the mainstream. If you've ever opened up a new Dell system, one with "three gigs" of memory, it has 2X 1.5gig sticks.
 
in your case if you are on XP 32-bit it doesn't matter what is in the BIOS - Windows won't show 4GB as available due to OS limitations.
 
I just installed vista x64 on my ip35 system and I got 4 gigs no problem.
 
I popped into this thread because I have an IP35 board on the way. Just an interesting FYI on 64-bit with 4GB of memory I came across:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/15/vista_workshop/page5.html

The upshot is that it doesn't make sense to install a 64-bit version of Vista in order to better utilize 4 GB of memory simply because the 32 bit version would only recognize 3.5 GB. The problem is that while it is true that you would "gain" the missing memory, you would also immediately lose it to the system due to the 64-bit version's larger memory footprint. Thus, using a 64-bit version really only makes sense with larger memory sizes.
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I just got one of these mobos. I'm having problems w/ memory also because it simply can't run at 1:1.25. Whatever settings I put Prime fails in 30s. I really don't understand all the hype about this board, for me it's just average. Ah well, it's a good excuse to get a X48.
 
golfjam
Problems with memory are usually related to not enough voltage either for RAM or for NB. So, check that you RAM voltage in BIOS is set as specified by the RAM manufacturer (or even a bit more if you are overclocking). And try increasing NB (aka MCH) voltage.
I don't know how many sticks of RAM are you using, but it seems almost all need increased MCH voltage when using 4 of them.
 
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