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Old Sep 23, 2007, 11:55 PM   #1
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IS there ANY way @ all???
to get vista x86 to read 4gb of ram?

Im stuck between a rock and a hard place here.

With Vista X64 installed the system runs good, and i can use all 4 GB of ram. But my new keyboard, with fingerprint reader and my Linksys Wireless PCI card wont work.

Now ive called both companies and they both said that they do NOT support 64bit verzions of windows? I dont see why not.

So for everything to work i need 32 bit but then i loose my ram? What to do?
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Old Sep 24, 2007, 12:20 AM   #2
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to get vista x86 to read 4gb of ram?
Nope, it's a 32-bit hardware limitation.

Companies that don't support any kind of 64-bit OS simply lose my support in actually purchasing their products.
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Old Sep 24, 2007, 07:35 AM   #3
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Those companies are going to get cut off in terms of microsoft certifieing thier products.. OR if the hardware is older generation, you'd have to get the newer gen to actually use the x64. Microsoft has pretty much made it so that for a company to have a sign driver, they must produce a driver and software for BOTH 32bit and 64bit vista oses... or they don't get any soup.
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Those companies are going to get cut off in terms of microsoft certifieing thier products.. OR if the hardware is older generation, you'd have to get the newer gen to actually use the x64. Microsoft has pretty much made it so that for a company to have a sign driver, they must produce a driver and software for BOTH 32bit and 64bit vista oses... or they don't get any soup.
Haha.. well What about this one... the product that it doesnt support IS A MICROSOFT PRODUCT! lol. Its thier USB keyboard with fingerprint reader. Says Vista certified right on the dang box. Called them and they said they will NEVER make a x64 driver to return i to the store or downgrade to x86.
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omfg...

that's royally ludicris...... i'd contact microsoft directly about that.
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what do you mean contact them directly? i called tech support and they said they wont make a driver.. if you know somone else, or something else i can do just let me know and it will be done
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lol, seems like Judas probably didn't read your above post word by word, i don't read well all the time too lol.
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Microsoft has several different departments...

did you contact the department directly related to the device... or microsoft directly...

but atm, i'm not completely sure what could be done.... it's still rediculious
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