This is my rig. So if anyone wonders what I have when I talk with you friends out here, this is it.

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Two wrongs don't make a right.
But six left turns will get you around the block
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And this is my music room where I write and play songs as well as practice. The room I couldn't get all of it but I think you get the idea. Just thought I would share a bit of my stuff.

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Two wrongs don't make a right.
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WOW ! I Love that monitor ! Do You have two identical PCs Kenny ? Sure the Vaios are good looking   ! But you need a black keyboard...

Here are the details of my DynoPC...

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I have a black keyboard and mouse but they are wireless. I never could get over that when you can't walk to the other side of the room with a mouse and keyboards. The keyboard is from another PC. A Sony Vaio RZ 16. Yes I am guilty. I have four PCs in the house.

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Nice toys...!

However, sorry to bring this thread back on track(!), but I have bad news if you want to use more than 2 Gb of RAM.  Any Windows OS before Vista can't handle more than two Gb of RAM unless tweaked, and only if the software you want to use is also capable of seeing it - which I'm pretty sure Poser can't do.

(Could be worse... if you are using Win95/98, the effective RAM limit without tweaking the system is 380Mb or so... even if you have 2 Gb or more RAM installed!)

As for external RAM additions like Kenny was thinking of, I've never heard of that idea, and I'd assume that the performance penalties involved would be why they would be rare.

Having rained on this parade, I think I'll go find a kid to pinch candy from just to round things off!

GrouchoC.

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Yes there are two of Sony Vaios. They are running together as one. I had said something about that here at one time or another on the site. I use a split partition in both of the PCs drives to run Windows Home XP and Windows 2003 server to couple both together to make one. So in some way if Vista was used I maybe able to use 4x4gigs of ram in both. But it is just in theory.

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Hi all, I used to get the same error with Poser4, until the memory fix patch was made. I think the problem lies within Poser5 & not so much with your computer/s tda42. There are various thoughts & opinions on what is a good layout for Virtual memory is. I myself simply let the OS (Operating System) look after my Vmem (Win XP Pro). If you wish to go with a manual setup, a good rule of thumb is 2 to 2 & a half times physical RAM for an upper measurement of Virtual memory ie: 2Gb RAM x2 = 4096Mb Virtual memory Max. For a Minimum something around 10Mb would be good.

Your BIOS maybe the reason for the limit on RAM ie: 4x1Gb. You may need to update the mainboard BIOS or maybe look at buying a new mainboard that supports more RAM.

There are PCI cards that one can buy to add more RAM to a system that has run out of RAM slots, though I would be more inclined to buy a new mainboard & place 4x1Gb or 4x2Gb RAM sticks in it.

GrouchoCaesar, I feel someone may have misinformed you about RAM limits within OS'es. Windows 2000 was the first OS to break the 2Gb limit & just like Windows XP it knows how to use up to 4Gb of RAM with no tweaking involved. Thanks for the rain though

Hope this help you out tda42

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Since when?  I assume you mean our current problem. Windows ist Muell. Linux ist die Macht!

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Posy wrote: [View Post]

Since when?  I assume you mean our current problem. Windows ist Muell. Linux ist die Macht!

          

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Hi Turtool, I think that the Sony Vaios have proprietary mainboards, not easy to update with a standard AT or ATX , However for the use of today programs 2 Gigs should be enough .

    Mmm... Posy said something funny in German that I don't understand ...

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Does it please you to believe I said that?

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Okay... for anyone who thinks you can happily tool away in XP with 4Gb or more of RAM, I suggest you check out the following website:

Roll On Linux!

This quote in particular is not kidding:

Although the performance benefits of 64-bit are somewhat dubious on the desktop, a 64-bit OS absolutely essential if you run applications that need to use more than 2 GB of memory.

(Ungrammatical, but informative. Also note that this problem is still apparent even in 32-bit Vista. Yikes!)

I've been there, I've had to troubleshoot RAM problems using 4Gb of RAM in XP Pro for a friend, and although I conceed that the PC in question was a little extreme (A greedy SLI setup with twin 512Mb video cards didn't help any...) the damn beast only showed 2.5 Gb of RAM in XP when there was 4Gb installed and recognised by the BIOS.

It all boils down to the more hardware in your system, the less RAM you have to play with. Especially if you have PCI-Express hardware.

4Gb is great for Linux(64-bit compiled, of course) and 64-bit XP or Vista... but realistically overkill for anything else.

This is my last comment on the subject in any case.  But for further research, might I suggest you type "windows xp memory limit" into Google...

GrouchoC.

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Quote:

   Mmm... Posy said something funny in German that I don't understand ...

Posy says: Windows is trash, Linux is the power!

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Did I really say that?

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