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Nope. The mobo doesn't care of OS architecture (the processor does, but even my prehistoric one can support x64 OS).Well, the OS is x64, and I think the MB is too. Would that cause troubles because of the missing stick?
And the OS has only a lower and max ram limit ( x64 Win7 needs around 2 GB to run, but makes no sense to install it if you have less than 3 GB anyway)
There is something called "dual channel" memory usage, which generally does favor having a even number of ram sticks from the same manufacturer as it basically puts the rams in a RAID.
Check your mobo manual about this. I've seen some that manage to run dual-channel with paired rams AND single-channel with the odd lone ram stick.
Won't make a huge performance difference, around 5% in running very memory intensive tasks.
Is that a reading from the BIOS? Try going in the bios and set them manually at 1600 or if it doesn't work set them to 1333, also check their required voltage (manufacturer's site) and adjust it from the bios as needed, sometimes they require more voltage than what the BIOS thinks.The sticks I'm using are labeled as: 1866MHz, Corsair said the DRAM speed should be set at 1600 for my CPU. I bought them as a set of four from Amazon. I do not understand why it's showing at 400, or even 667.
What the virtual machine sees isn't an indication, see by task manager of the host machine if the cores you assigned are working. I know that issue with updates, it is murderously annoying. Google around and you'll find plenty of possible solutions (it can be caused by various different things). The best solution is getting a XP disk with SP2 already on it.It appears that XP Pro is only seeing a single processor. I'm want to wait until I get all the updates, but the Windows [XP] update part of Microsoft is having errors, so I think I'm stuck on SP1 for now...
I tend to like VirtualBox as the VM program.