I agree. Sorry if I seemed to give the opposite opinion. I wasn't
specifically addressing Doug's problem, but rather responding to
churin to correct the somewhat inaccurate statements that "Either way,
the maximum amount of RAM you will be able to access (without enabling
PAE) is 3.2GB."
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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Exact number shown on Performance/Task_Manager is 2045 while number
shown while POSTing is 4193216KB. Could you post details of suggested
investigation of the BIOS settings and testing the hardware?
Hi together!
In the past I also upgraded my RAM to 4GB, with an ASUS P5WDH Deluxe. I
think I had something like 3,2 GB RAM with 1 installed Graphics Card,
and around 2,25 GB with another for Crossfire. It looks like the
Graphics Card uses most of the RAM.
I first tested it with XP 32 bit. With the memory remapping-feature
turned on it showed me the amount of available RAM during the boot
process and the amount was the same in Windows.
With memory remapping turned off I got my 4096 MB in the Bios post, but
Windows limited the memory to 2 GB.
I bought Ultimate x64 a few weeks ago and it all worked fine.
In our company we often sell Supermicro Servers with Windows Server
2003 installed. There I made my first experiences with addressing 4 GB
RAM. While the X5 and X6 models often had problems with 4 GB, the X7
seem to work fine with the current bios-versions.
It seems to activate pae automatically, in the past we had to add it in
the boot.ini.
I usually see pae activated on desktop pcs with Win XP as well, but we
usually just install 2 GB there.
I read that each task cannot address more than 2 GB so it wouldn't run
faster with more RAM, does anybody know anything about that?
I hope my english isn't that bad since it's not my native language.
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Corristo79
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