Re: Windows XP Home Memory Limit?

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From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:18:44 -0600

Both XP Home and XP Pro support up to 4 GB of RAM.

Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp 

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"Jason" wrote:
| Does Windows XP Home Edition have a limit on the amount of RAM it can 
| properly manage?  My system runs fine with 512mb, but everytime I try to 
| upgrade to 1GB, regardless of the manufacturer of the memory, Windows scan 
| disks on boot up giving me "TRUNCATING BADLY LINKED ATTRIBUTE RECORDS." 
| Once Scan disk is done, I'll get in fine and then after awhile a little 
| bubble pops up in the lower right saying that file C:\????? is corrupted and 
| I should run checkdisk.  Both DIMM modules are PC2700 - 512MB ram, 
| Unbuffered non-ECC, they are both PNY, but I've tried having the second chip 
| be a Kingston chip, no difference.  Mother board is the Tyan Trinity KT400 
| S2495an with an AMD Athlon XP3000+.
| 
| Thanks!
| 
| (Maybe I should be running XP Professional with this amount of RAM, but I'd 
| like to be sure)

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