From: "Robert Comer" 

> Vista RC2 won't even install if your memory is less than 500 mb

That's not a true statement, 512M is just the recommended.  I've installed
it in less.  I wouldn't want to run it regularly in less, but it does work.

The 512M story came about because of a bug a few builds back... (6-months ago)

> and many of the recommendations I've seen lately for Vista are 1 gig
> minimum, 2 gig comfortable.

It depends on what you want to do and the GUI you want to run.

--
Bob Comer





"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:4538e2e8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Vista RC2 won't even install if your memory is less than 500 mb and many
> of the recommendations I've seen lately for Vista are 1 gig minimum, 2 gig
> comfortable. I think that rules out a good portion of the computers
> currently out there. Microsoft's ECC recommendation was for the system
> builders and new Vista hardware. I doubt they care about upgrades of older
> hardware
>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:4538d134$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Most computers today aren't even setup to run with ECC so putting ECC
>> memory in one of these computers either wouldn't provide ECC benefit or
>> would keep the computer from even booting.  Isn't this correct?
>>
>> Funny, it used to be that all motherboards were ECC memory, then windows
>> 95 came in and suddenly all motherboards were non-ECC.  Now a new version
>> of windows wants to go back to ECC??  Why did we ever leave ECC to begin
>> with? Was it to keep windows 95 from crashing left and right?
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:4538c60c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> It would be a good thing if all memory were ECC ( overclocking  gamers
>>> would hate it though).  I doubt many of the low to mid end system
>>> builders will use ECC and it will be interesting to see how much a bad
>>> rap Vista gets due to flacky memory
>>>
>>>
>>> "Mike N."  wrote in message
>>> news:1obhj21b1g6bf2mpfv5f7njef031uls63v{at}4ax.com...
>>>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:54:12 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
>>>> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Nearly two years ago I met with Jim Allchin,
co-President Platforms and
>>>>>Services Division at Microsoft who headed the Vista
development effort,
>>>>>and
>>>>>Jim said Vista should only be used with ECC memory.
Virtually every OEM
>>>>>had
>>>>>a fit and PR folks piled on Jim so he wouldn't say that anymore.
>>>>>However, my
>>>>>own experience with Vista suggests he may have been right.
>>>>
>>>>  Ahhh ... the wisdom of the pajama consultant!
>>>>
>>>> "Vista uses memory aggressively and if there is a
memory error it will
>>>> blue
>>>> screen."
>>>>
>>>>   And what OS wouldn't blue screen?   It must be that Vista is
>>>> accessing
>>>> memory in different patterns that escaped previous usage and testing
>>>> patterns.   This is like the old OS/2 days where OS/2 was
the bad guy
>>>> because it tested all the RAM on the PC and crashed left and right.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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