4GB of ram with XP SP2 32 bit

Dark_Angel

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Now, I know that all the ram won't show up :D (am dual booting with VISTA 64 bit so that will make use of all of the ram).

Just making sure that windows XP doesn't have any "it may crash because it doesn't support that amount of ram" issues, Or will the only concern I will have be the obvious issue (where it only sees about 3.5GB of ram).

Not that it will make much difference, but C2D @3GHZ, 8800 GTS and will be 4GB of DDR2 ram.
 
I actually somehow managed to lose a gig of ram by just adding an ati 512meg graphics card (had onboard) and updating to dual boot with vista 64bit. Went from 3 to 2gig (exactly) listred as usuable and thats with all the tweaks/tricks/bios adjustments I could come up with - some are needed for vista 64. However turning off the bios adjustments gave me 2.25GB ram :rolleyes: Got to love computers :D
 
I was under the impression that if you put more ram in a machine than the OS could handle it would actually slow it down as the machine is unable to address all the available memory.

I can't remember where i read that now. might have a google to see if i can find it again.

edit: thinking about it, your system will see the pagefile as system memory and since xp will only see a certain amount of system memory, you could try turning the pagefile off.
 
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blastman, i think that only applied with windows 98

could be wrong though

(as in slowing the machine down i mean)
 
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