Re: Win XP home with 4GB of RAM?

Do a Google search on boot.ini and you'll find articles describing the /3Gb
switch and other info on what happens when there is more than 3Gb of memory
installed.

"tp" <tapio_puranen@(no)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Windows XP will not properly report the amount of installed RAM if
there is more than 3 gb total installed. This is a cosmetic issue
only and all of the physical RAM is in fact usable.

Thank you for reply, it however seems that it's not so simple.
Taskmanager shows 3GB of total ram, of which 2.6 is free (0.4 for windows
and web browser)
Now the program I use, RamDisk Plus is unable to create a larger than 2.6
GB
ramdisk, which is the value of free ram shown on taskmanager. This is of
course undestandable, but for the missing one GB... So either Ramdisk Plus
can't see beyond the "cosmetic issue" or windows reserves the one gigabyte
for some purpose so it's unable to be used.


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