Re: XP And RAM

JD wrote:
I'm using XP home edition with SP3 and I have 4GB of RAM installed.
From previous posts in this newsgroup I learned that 32-bit
operating systems can only address 4GB of RAM.

I found this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605

It's talking about Vista but I noticed it says:

"WORKAROUND
For Windows Vista to use all 4 GB of memory on a computer that has
4 GB of memory installed, the computer must meet the following
requirements:
The chipset must support at least 8 GB of address space. Chipsets
that have this capability include the following:

Chipsets that support AMD processors that use socket F, socket 940,
socket 939, or socket AM2. These chipsets include any AMD socket
and CPU combination in which the memory controller resides in the
CPU.
The CPU must support the x64 instruction set. The AMD64 CPU and the
Intel EM64T CPU support this instruction set.

The BIOS must support the memory remapping feature

An x64 (64-bit) version of Windows Vista must be used."


Even if my AMD AM2 processor and my BIOS meet the above
requirements, I'm still not going to be able to address more than
4GB of memory since my XP is a 32-bit OS?

Your last sentence is correct.

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