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Acer Aspire 7520 dualboot XP&Vista

Oct 20, 2007 4:59AM PDT

Hello everyone ,I bought an acer 7520 ,It has 2gb rams and a geforce 256mb and an AMD turion 64 x2 2ghz . It's very very good but I found that vista has taken about 700mb of rams without running even one software !! Anyway .. I want to install windows XP with the vista but I have a problem finding the drivers , I checked the acer web site and I found the drivers but I really don't know if these drivers are for vista or Xp or what .. So plz anyone can fnid me a url that contains this model's drivers .


Thanks alot ..

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Actually all VM based OSes take all the ram.
Oct 20, 2007 5:06AM PDT

The idea of free ram dates back to DOS days. But those that sell Free RAM programs love to talk to those that still think this way.

Let's be clear. This is not DOS.

Bob

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I don't see UR point .
Oct 20, 2007 7:33AM PDT

I have 2 gb of rams and all if the available rams for me for the programs is 1.2 gb ..... I want to install xp because it's much better with the applications .

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You may need to catch a little on OS "tech."
Oct 20, 2007 7:44AM PDT

Windows releases memory as needed. Here's the article to give you a quite primer. "Unused RAM is wasted RAM.." Windows will use memory even for something you may dismiss because it beats accessing the hard disk everytime.

If you don't catchup on this fast you may be found working far too hard for not much payback or worse, handing money to those Free Memory people...

Read http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

Yes, it applies to Vista as well.

Bob

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(NT) Make that a "quick primer"...
Oct 20, 2007 7:57AM PDT
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Let's also tackle that other limit. It's 2.0GB for apps.
Oct 20, 2007 7:47AM PDT
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx covers the use of the /3GB switch but we also learn that unless a problem was compiled with a special switch it is still limited to 2GB.

Hopefully this and the other article can help you catch up to today's Windows memory management and kick the DOS memory style thinking.

Bob