Comments on: How Fix Windows 7 BSOD Due to 4GB RAM

By: brewt

brewt — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:21:52 +0000

I love you man, i couldn’t figure this out at all. and neither could any tech support. all said the RAM didn’t meet the requirements of the machine. Awesome your the best.

By: Gamliel

Gamliel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:28:53 +0000

This windows fix won’t work for me fully — it did stop the BSODs from showing up, BUT when I hit “apply” in msconfig, and then I go back into the BOOT Advanced window, it shows 3072!!! I have an NVidia 9400GT card that I assume does not share memory, but it is, is there a way to stop it from doing so?

I assume that this was case in Vista Ultimate (which, by the way, showed 4GB RAM despite being the 32-bit version), but it didn’t show “the truth”.

BTW, I am running a workhorse ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe with 4GB of Corsair Value Select and an AMD Opteron 185.

Oh, and on ASUS’s forums I found a fix that didn’t really work in the BIOS where you disable mapping (S/W and H/W) of 4GB and above of RAM. What affect would that have here? (It didn’t make a different in the reporting of the RAM that W7 saw.)

Any ideas on the issues above?

Thanks!

By: Jimmy Pierre

Jimmy Pierre — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:10:16 +0000

Greetings,

Does anyone know if there is a tweak to get Server 2008 R2 to do the same tjing?

Cheers,
Jimmy

By: Enable More Than 4GB RAM In Windows Vista and 7 32 Bit

Enable More Than 4GB RAM In Windows Vista and 7 32 Bit — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:50:08 +0000

[...] could cause a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) if the system had 4GB (or more) RAM. I managed to find a fix for that issue. But, I had another minor niggle to figure out. Although I paid for 4GB of RAM, [...]

By: Bobob

Bobob — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:36:03 +0000

Looks like I fell for it and it cost me some headaches!

Thanks for the response.

By: Pallab

Pallab — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:08:47 +0000

I haven’t heard about BSOD’s due to changing that figure, but I remember reading that changing the no. of processors won’t make windows boot faster. Its a fake tweak that’s all over the intertubes.

By: Bobob

Bobob — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:56:59 +0000

I actually tried changing the number of processors on my windows 7 32 bit install from 1 to 2 (have an E6850) to speed up my boot and had all sorts of problems. BSOD, had to safe boot, etc. Ended up restoring my system image from a second HD (thank goodness I did that!). Have you heard about this problem before?

By: Pallab

Pallab — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:27:44 +0000

This is a problem 32 bit systems normally encounter. But since you are already using a 64bit OS, my guess is that your graphics adapter is sharing 1gb of RAM. Hence, it is not usable.

By: Aji

Aji — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:17:13 +0000

i have same problem. i just follow your your step in this article last night, and whole day normal but SODIMM only usable 3GB (although detected 4GB). i use win 7 64bit and Compaq CQ40-416AU (AMD turion X2 processor).
any ideas?

email me : ajieboy[at]gmail.com

By: Wordpress Help

Wordpress Help — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:26:18 +0000

Wow, so glad you posted this – I was getting ready to put a new stick of memory in my Toshiba laptop…lol. It’s a shame they don’t tell you this kind of stuff when you them them. Thanks again!
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