Peter Viola's Blog

Vista 64-Bit with 4GB RAM Boot Issues

peter — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:17:00 GMT

Have you tried to run Vista 64-bit with more than 4GB RAM?

I worked with Dell support for 2 weeks to get my new XPS 720 QX6700 quad-core PC to recognize more than 3GB RAM and it would BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) each time Vista x64 started to load. Dell even sent me a new motherboard for my 2 week old PC. Then they said my U360 SCSI hard drive was the issue so I yanked it out and baselined a new SATA drive and got the same BSOD results.

Finally a Dell technician found this Microsoft Patch and it solved the problem.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=91672C7C-614B-404C-850C-377541E93C18&displaylang=en

I even tested by uninstalling the patch and the BSOD returned as soon as I rebooted. I am finally able to use my SCSI hard drive with Vista x64 and 6GB RAM.

Thanks to Dell for all their help.

Microsoft WPF/E Silverlight Released

peter — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:38:00 GMT

Hey. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

It's the new name for WPF/E. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web.

Peter

Enable IIS 7 on Vista

peter — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:55:00 GMT

Did you know Windows Vista has IIS 7? Watch Brett Hill of Microsoft show you how easy it is to enable IIS 7 on Vista.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=206237