canivari
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If you have 4GB of RAM or more and you are running Windows XP 32Bits
there is a trick to adress all the physicall RAM under the Windows
and start running in 36Bits so he can manage all the RAM until 64GB of
physicall RAM installed:
Note: Microsoft blocked the Operating Systems until the 4GB of RAM because there are some drivers that dont load or can create BSODs at the startup because they cant manage very well with the OS operating at 36 Bits.
So if you gonna try this make sure you have back up everything in your computers first.
So, what you need is to enable an Program in XP so he can boot with your physicall RAM (until 64GB) and that program is PAE (Physical Address Extension mode)and to do that just need to :
edit c:\boot.ini with notepad
Change something like:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
To:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /PAE
Save and reboot. You should now see (and use) the total of your physicall RAM because its now running in a 36-bit mode.
there is a trick to adress all the physicall RAM under the Windows
and start running in 36Bits so he can manage all the RAM until 64GB of
physicall RAM installed:
Note: Microsoft blocked the Operating Systems until the 4GB of RAM because there are some drivers that dont load or can create BSODs at the startup because they cant manage very well with the OS operating at 36 Bits.
So if you gonna try this make sure you have back up everything in your computers first.
So, what you need is to enable an Program in XP so he can boot with your physicall RAM (until 64GB) and that program is PAE (Physical Address Extension mode)and to do that just need to :
edit c:\boot.ini with notepad
Change something like:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
To:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /PAE
Save and reboot. You should now see (and use) the total of your physicall RAM because its now running in a 36-bit mode.