February 2006 - Posts

Vista Editions and x64

Published 27 February 6 4:43 PM | Charlie Russel

Microsoft has announced what will be in the various editions of Vista, the next version of the Windows operating system. The press release is here . The interesting thing for me in this is that x64 will be available on all editions. This means full Media...

Windows Defender for x64 (Beta)

Published 14 February 6 5:11 PM | Charlie Russel

Microsoft has released a new beta of Windows Defender that works with x64 Edition. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx Note that this is a BETA version and should not be installed on production...

Wireless G Adapters that work in x64 Edition (Ralink)

Published 13 February 6 6:31 PM | Charlie Russel

Thanks to Dennis Pack for posting this link in the public 64-bit newsgroup . It shows all of the available wireless G network adapters, including PCI adapters, that are based on the Ralink chipsets, and thus have drivers for x64 Edition. It's not an official...

Virtual Memory (swap) >4GB

Published 9 February 6 8:9 PM | Charlie Russel

This isn't really an x64 issue, but a file system issue, but since it came up on the newsgroup, I thought I'd comment on it briefly here. If you want to have a single virtual memory file that is greater than 4 GB, you must put it on an NTFS partition...

VMWare Server Free and Fully Supports x64

Published 7 February 6 6:23 AM | Charlie Russel

VMWare announced today that they were releasing a public beta of their new VMWare Server product that is based on the earlier GSX product. They also announced that the final release will be free . Their servers have been hammered all day, but I managed...

Processors Not Recognized in x64 Edition?

Published 5 February 6 6:39 AM | Charlie Russel

So, if you're running Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition, with multiple, dual-core, processors, and not all processors are correctly recognized, then you may be running into a problem caused by how your BIOS increments the APIC numbering. There's a fix from...