Does Windows XP home have a RAM limitation?

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Jason,
see http://www.tyan.com/support/html/memory_s2495.html for
memory limitations and recommendation from Tyan. also
ftp://ftp.tyan.com/manuals/a_s2495_100.pdf
and ftp://ftp.tyan.com/manuals/m_s2495_102.pdf

Are you running FAT32 or NTFS?


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| Both XP Home and XP Pro support up to 4 GB of RAM.
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| "Jason" wrote:
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|| 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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Or MemTest86+ from www.memtest.org

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Bob Willard wrote:
> 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)
>>
>>
>
> Search the web for memtest86; download and run it to see if one of your
> RAM sticks is bad.