There imust be some major name calling going on behind the scenes between Microsoft, Nvidia and Mobo and Memory stick manufacturers over this unresolved issue.
Thz thread at MS :
http://forums.microsoft.com/te...7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=17
has been alive since the spring of 2007 and seen more than a hundred thousand times.
But ithe status is still "unanswered", and MS moderator input conspicuously absent.
The hotfix and workaround work 80 % of times, but 20 % do not,, and all you can then do is remove two gigs of RAM from your new state of the art rig.
Typical scenario :
You decide to build your ultimate rig to tackle Crysis. Perusing AnandTech, you naturally select a QX 6850 and a couple of SLI'ed 8800 GTS 512. Since you're going Nvidia, you also naturally go for a Nvidia 680i chipset motherboard, say the Asus Strker Extreme. And while you are at it, you decide to go for 4 bars of 1g memory, and the precious Vista 64 that you read was the only way to fully use them.
Guaranteed result : Vista 64 won't install. So you go through the whole rigmarole described in the above link, update coutless BIOS, Drivers and OS and hotfix with only two bars of memory in the machine, and in 20 % of cases you will never succeed in adding the offending two more.
My experience is in building 4 such machines recently, with random results.
What strikes me is the incredible delay in getting such an issue definitely fixed. There probably are some sly interacrion of the various hard and soft components, but a nine month open thread on such a basic matter ?
Thz thread at MS :
http://forums.microsoft.com/te...7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=17
has been alive since the spring of 2007 and seen more than a hundred thousand times.
But ithe status is still "unanswered", and MS moderator input conspicuously absent.
The hotfix and workaround work 80 % of times, but 20 % do not,, and all you can then do is remove two gigs of RAM from your new state of the art rig.
Typical scenario :
You decide to build your ultimate rig to tackle Crysis. Perusing AnandTech, you naturally select a QX 6850 and a couple of SLI'ed 8800 GTS 512. Since you're going Nvidia, you also naturally go for a Nvidia 680i chipset motherboard, say the Asus Strker Extreme. And while you are at it, you decide to go for 4 bars of 1g memory, and the precious Vista 64 that you read was the only way to fully use them.
Guaranteed result : Vista 64 won't install. So you go through the whole rigmarole described in the above link, update coutless BIOS, Drivers and OS and hotfix with only two bars of memory in the machine, and in 20 % of cases you will never succeed in adding the offending two more.
My experience is in building 4 such machines recently, with random results.
What strikes me is the incredible delay in getting such an issue definitely fixed. There probably are some sly interacrion of the various hard and soft components, but a nine month open thread on such a basic matter ?