WindowsXP and 1GB of Ram memory

[Baku]

Hi everyone.

I've heard from some that WXP can't use more than 500MB of
RAM. Is that true???
I have 1GB of Ram and wanna use it all. Should I make any
customizations of XP to make my 1GB works for me???

[Jef Norton]

"Baku" > wrote in message
...
| Hi everyone.
|
| I've heard from some that WXP can't use more than 500MB of
| RAM. Is that true???
| I have 1GB of Ram and wanna use it all. Should I make any
| customizations of XP to make my 1GB works for me???

Hi Baku -

The problem you're referring to is with the Windows 9x/ME kernel and has
nothing to do with the Windows NT Kernel, which Windows XP is based upon.

Windows XP will successfully support up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, depending, of
course, on whether your motherboard supports that much RAM. 1 gigabyte
should be fine (I'm running 1 gig on my desktop machine with no modification
or special settings).

Jef

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Supports up to 2gb of ram



Baku wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> I've heard from some that WXP can't use more than 500MB of
> RAM. Is that true???
> I have 1GB of Ram and wanna use it all. Should I make any
> customizations of XP to make my 1GB works for me???

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Supports up to 4gb of ram



Baku wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> I've heard from some that WXP can't use more than 500MB of
> RAM. Is that true???
> I have 1GB of Ram and wanna use it all. Should I make any
> customizations of XP to make my 1GB works for me???

[Jim Macklin]

That is your motherboard limit, the limit for XP is 4 GB.


"Alvin A Brown" > wrote in message
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| Hello
|
| Supports up to 2gb of ram
|
|
|
| Baku wrote:
|
| > Hi everyone.
| >
| > I've heard from some that WXP can't use more than 500MB
of
| > RAM. Is that true???
| > I have 1GB of Ram and wanna use it all. Should I make
any
| > customizations of XP to make my 1GB works for me???
|

[Alex Nichol]

Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware:127835

Baku wrote:

>
>I've heard from some that WXP can't use more than 500MB of
>RAM. Is that true???

Totally untrue. It was said about Win98/ME - where you needed one small
edit to system..ini, in XP you need do nothing

>I have 1GB of Ram and wanna use it all. Should I make any
>customizations of XP to make my 1GB works for me???

No. Provided multiple sticks match properly, and are OK by the
motherboard, they will just work

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.