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  • What do I need to know when installing Win64?
    • All device drivers must be 64-bit. 32-bit device drivers don't work. Make sure you have 64-bit drivers for all the devices in your system. This includes the chipset on your motherboard. AMD64 Compatible Device Drivers
    • Parallel ATA (IDE) hard drives have "in box" support in 64-bit Windows
    • SATA drives generally do not have "in box" support, and require the SATA driver to be installed using a floppy drive when installing the OS. You need to hit F6 when prompted during Windows installation, and insert a floppy disk containing the driver files in the correct directory structure.
  • What Windows 64-bit tools are available?
    • Windows DirectX development: the DirectX SDK already has full 64-bit support, get the latest version from MSDN
    • Windows 64-bit compilers: you can use the Platform SDK (command line tools) or Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, which includes full 64-bit support.
    • When you install Visual Studio 2005, you MUST manually choose to install the x64 tools, under C/C++ options. They are not installed by default.
  • My 8 processor, 16 core system won't boot Linux. What do I do?
    • Some Linux distributions do not yet support that 16 processor cores. AMD is working with those vendors to resolve that issue. In the mean time, you can restrict the number of logical processor cores recognized by using the "maxprocs=" boot option.