Help with BIOS

[carlangas]

Hi all,

 

I have read some related threads but im still confused.

 

I have just switched my workstation from xp pro 32 to xp x64. things seem to work fine but it doesnt read all my ram. do I need to upgrade my bios?, remember I was initially running win xp32. I downloaded two items from the motherboard site, one is the driver zip and the other is some "6.86_nforce_winxp64_international_whql.exe" utility. should I upgrade the mobo driver or flash the bios or both or can my problem be fixed within the bios settings alone?

 

here are the specs:

 

dual opteron 270

running win xp x64

supermicro H8DCE motherboard

4GB ram (bios and windows read only 2.92, cpu-z reads 4gb)

 

thanks for your help,

[mtutaj]

did you do an upgrade or a clean install would be my first question.

 

I also found this link which I think might help.

 

http://forums.amd.com/lofiversion/index.php/t52417.html

 

Mike

[carlangas]

thanks for the input Mike,

 

I did read those and other forums and eventually found a fix. I just had to enable the soft memory hole setting in the bios and it worked.