I'm not sure if this solves your problem, and there are several downsides (if you don't have a modern OS), but you could go into the bios and change the bios to UEFI.
This choice is only compatible with x64 OSes, but as it forces your bootdisk to use a GPT partition table, it will require a whole OS reinstall and there are some minimum requirements; if you're using a Microsoft OS, you need at least 2008 x64, and if you're using a Red Hat Linux solution, it has to be based on 6.x (beta only last I checked).
These OS requirements are because the kernel needs to support using a GPT disk for the bootdisk (not the case with Windows 2003 x64 or Red Hat 5.5 and earlier).
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October 19th, 2010 11:00
I'm not sure if this solves your problem, and there are several downsides (if you don't have a modern OS), but you could go into the bios and change the bios to UEFI.
This choice is only compatible with x64 OSes, but as it forces your bootdisk to use a GPT partition table, it will require a whole OS reinstall and there are some minimum requirements; if you're using a Microsoft OS, you need at least 2008 x64, and if you're using a Red Hat Linux solution, it has to be based on 6.x (beta only last I checked).
These OS requirements are because the kernel needs to support using a GPT disk for the bootdisk (not the case with Windows 2003 x64 or Red Hat 5.5 and earlier).
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October 19th, 2010 12:00
Does Dell BIOS support 64-bit bars so the PCI address space is placed above 4GB limit?