Hello,

I have a new system SD32P2 from shuttle with 4gb of Ram. I know XP only handles 2gb in standard but I also know we can configure XP to take advantage of more RAM.

What is the proper configuration to make this happen.

Thanks,

Etienne

no xp pro supports up to 4gb of physical memory on a 32bit platform, so as long as the system is reporting 4gb ram, it sees it, and it will use it as required...not sure what type of tweak or optimizations you're asking for

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ [...] leases.asp

Yet, when I go into the desktop properties, the system reports 2gb. On the other hand, my bios does report 4 gb.

This is why i am confused.

Any lights on this?

Etienne

can you paste the content of your boot.ini in here? (on the C drive as a hidden text file)

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professionnel" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

i'm not responsible for your system or whatever happens to it after doing this, do it at your own risk, you may get stuck in a no boot situation

make the following change on the last line, it stands for physical address extention, may help in getting windows to recognize more RAM:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professionnel" /pae /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

hope it works, if it doesn't and your o/s craps out, have your xp cd, boot into recovery console, edit the boot.ini file to remove the /pae switch out of there