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Dell Inspiron BIOS upgrade
I have a T5500 processor, which is an Intel 64 enabled processor and can support 64 bit OS.
I right now have a 32 bit Win XP and was looking to upgrade.
The intel documentation says I need to have a 64 enabled BIOS.
I have a Dell Inspiron E1505. Is the bios version A17 the correct one?
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Aditya
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July 12th, 2009 17:00
Because of the chipset in the system, which won't release all 4G of RAM (assuming you install that much) to the OS, there's literally no advantage to a 64-bit OS on this system. In fact, if anything, you'll see LESS memory available for programs with a 64-bit OS- the program footprints are larger, as is the OS kernel and other components.