Dual Boot mobo....

[sm8000]

I was just thinking....suppose I got one of those ECS boards (or whoever else makes them) that has slots for both DDR and SDRAM. And I had all the slots filled. In a dual boot system, could I set each OS to use only one pair of slots? Say Win98 would only use the SDRAM slots and Win2k would use the DDR. Is that possible? I realize that the ECS website says "cannot be used simultaneously" but I don't want to use them both at once....and I was just thinking about the memory count at bootup. Would I have to disable that in the BIOS? Or is there a boot loader I could use?

[AllGamer]

n....o... :rolleyes:

no way you can set that up

yes there USED to be mobo out there that you could use both SD RAM and DDR RAM at the same time

but still those will not allow you to specify which OS uses what

it just uses it all :t

[sm8000]

Oh well....kinda cool idea in theory, anyway....but I'd love to find out what that board you mentioned is. Thanks anyway though.

Cheers!

[Bigjakkstaffa]

As AG said - today you can only one type at a time, as for the idea of assigning each OS to a specific RAM stick - come come - windows 9x has enough trouble managing RAM as it is - why complicate things :eek:

;)

--Jakk:t

[Peter M]

Sorry, there hasn't ever been a board that allowed you to do that. That's simply because SDR and DDR are electrically incompatible enough to be unable to coexist on one bus, even with one type unused at a given time.