I am 64 Bit

August 28th, 2007

Just like Hanselman, I was a bit apprehensive in deciding to install 64 bit Vista on my new machine. What would be different? Would my drivers work? What would break that I totally depend on in my toolbox?

My new machine happens to be a Dell Latitude D830. The driving factor behind installing Vista64 on it was the fact that 32 bit Vista on this platform can only address 3G or so of RAM and I bought 4G to go into the box. I had to either live with 1G of un-addressable RAM in my machine or go 64 bit. New millennium, here I come.

THIS THING SCREAMS. As an example, this is the fastest blog post I have ever written.

Conversely, installing the base system has taken about 3 days of waiting. Jeesh.

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David Starr

  • Zach

    Great! I’m trying to do the same with my D830 to no avail. Keeps blue screening the first time it tries to boot and it happens so fast I can’t read any error details.

    Did you do anything special?

    Thanks.

  • http://elegantcode.com David Starr

    Flash your BIOS. Good luck, it is worth it.

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