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December 19th 05, 06:22 PM
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XP Pro Max Physical Memory
How much physical RAM will XP support? My computermanufacturer says 2.7GB,
but the MOBO manufacturer says 4GB! TIA for any info... 
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December 19th 05, 09:48 PM
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XP Pro Max Physical Memory
Hi,
WindowsXP supports up to 4 gigabytes (GB) of RAM. Point your computer manufacture to this article. Processor and memory capabilities of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and of the x64-based versions of Windows Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;888732 -- Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org 998R wrote: How much physical RAM will XP support? My computermanufacturer says 2.7GB, but the MOBO manufacturer says 4GB! TIA for any info...
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December 19th 05, 09:49 PM
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XP Pro Max Physical Memory
According to the MCSE Training kit put out by the Microsoft press for Windows
XP Pro- the minimum is 64 MB (128 Recommended) and the maximum is 4GB. You might want to check with your computer manufacturer and see if that is really a hardware limit of the computer. I hope this helps. "998R" wrote: How much physical RAM will XP support? My computermanufacturer says 2.7GB, but the MOBO manufacturer says 4GB! TIA for any info...
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December 19th 05, 09:59 PM
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XP Pro Max Physical Memory
Thank you very much!
"Bert Kinney" wrote: Hi, WindowsXP supports up to 4 gigabytes (GB) of RAM. Point your computer manufacture to this article. Processor and memory capabilities of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and of the x64-based versions of Windows Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;888732 -- Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org 998R wrote: How much physical RAM will XP support? My computermanufacturer says 2.7GB, but the MOBO manufacturer says 4GB! TIA for any info...
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December 19th 05, 09:59 PM
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XP Pro Max Physical Memory
Thank you very much!
"cc_crash" wrote: According to the MCSE Training kit put out by the Microsoft press for Windows XP Pro- the minimum is 64 MB (128 Recommended) and the maximum is 4GB. You might want to check with your computer manufacturer and see if that is really a hardware limit of the computer. I hope this helps. "998R" wrote: How much physical RAM will XP support? My computermanufacturer says 2.7GB, but the MOBO manufacturer says 4GB! TIA for any info...
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December 20th 05, 05:36 PM
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XP Pro Max Physical Memory
"998R" wrote in message
... How much physical RAM will XP support? My computermanufacturer says 2.7GB, but the MOBO manufacturer says 4GB! TIA for any info... XP will support up to 4GB of RAM. However, you're dealing with virtual memory. A machine with 2 GB of physical RAM can still give you 4 GB of virtual memory. But, the more physical RAM, the better. 4 GB of virtual memory is divided into the upper 2 GB for the OS and the lower 2 GB for the application. The app will never be able to access all of its 2 GB for a number of reasons. There is something called the /3GB switch that can be used to force the OS to use the upper 1 GB and give the app the lower 3 GB. This has to be set in the boot record. Using this switch will probably allow the app to access around 2.7 GB IF the EXE image has a flag set that tells it it can do this. In many cases this isn't a good idea because the OS now has less space for caching. Google for "/3GB" and "LARGEADDRESSAWARE". - Arnie
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