Vista 32 Install Problems with ATI HD3850

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

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
>

Hi - thank you for your response.

There is a little history behind this. The original system was an X7DA3
with integrated SAS, 3 - 36G 15K drives and the ATI card. Vista 32 was
the choice as it would easily fit on one 36G drive and had no problem
with driver support for X_FI audio and other hardware. Vista 64
installed however driver support was not as strong - it also requires
44G for the install.
The new board (5400) chipset has changed that - Vista 32 will not
install !

My goals were to benchmark the 32bit vs 64bit with typical
applications such as Office 2007, Adobe CS3, Mathcad, Orcad , Vmware and
Nero. With the old board some applications would not run or install
under Vista 64.
Vista 32 was very stable and typically ran most everything. I'd still
like to bench mark these applications. In addition with the hd3850
there are some video artifacts under 64 that I did not see under 32.

So

Pros's 32
Installs


Eric


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ericr