anyway to install vista on 384mb ram

[trickytwista]

hi guys just wondering if theres anyway to install vista on 384mb ram? as i tried installing it and an error came up saying 512mb at least was needed and i wasnt able to continue..any help be appreciated..thanks

Edited November 29, 2006 by trickytwista

[dAbReAkA]

a friend of mine was able to install it on 384 (RC2..)

anyways, why would u want to install it on 384mb ram? it's highly unusable.. 512mb is still not enough to enjoy it properly.. i mean, running lots of apps, heavy apps, or games on it..

[trickytwista]

hi, at present i dont have access to my main tower as its in for repair so i tried installing it on a laptop which only has 384mb ram.

Edited November 29, 2006 by trickytwista

[fizban2]

hi, at present i dont have access to my main tower as its in for repair so i tried installing it on a laptop which only has 384mb ram.

512 would be the minimum that is need to start the winPE and install vista

[cluberti]

RTM setup checks the amount of RAM in the machine. If it's less than 512MB, it won't install - the check fails, it says so, and you don't continue. However, you CAN remove memory once installed to actually run Vista on a machine with less than 512MB of RAM, but you'll not be able to actually install Vista on said machine until you have 512MB of RAM installed during setup.

[dAbReAkA]

the strange thing is that i could install RC2 on a VM with 400mb RAM, and a friend of mine installed it on his PC with 384..

[cluberti]

But that was beta code (RCs are more final, but still beta). It cannot be considered wierd that something that wasn't supposed to work worked in a beta, but was "fixed" in RTM .

[LLXX]

If Vista's main setup program has command-line switches there's probably one to disable the memory check...

Maybe a highly stripped-down version of Vista will be fine with 384Mb...

[dAbReAkA]

a highly stripped-down version will be highly unusable though.. in a matter of functionality..

[joko]

I have the same problem, 256 ram on my pc. Currently i am runing vista rtm, it works great, had to borrow from my friend 512 ram to install it. I think the problem lies in some dll file during vista installation, probably autorun.dll on vista install cd. Could anyone post a vista beta, vista rc1 or vista rc2 autorun.dll because they allow you to install it on 256 ram machine. At least i think they do.

[dAbReAkA]

it doesnt make sense to be autorun.dll..

[LLXX]

a highly stripped-down version will be highly unusable though.. in a matter of functionality..

My XP (and that of many others) is highly stripped down and it does what I need it to... with Vista there are even more features that most users don't use or even have no knowledge of and will never use, so the gains may be higher.

[dAbReAkA]

yeah, the gains will be a lot higher.. vista has too much crap inside compared to XP or any other previous version..