Anyway to trick XP into thinking you have less ram

[jaywilliams3]

Hello,
I have a dual boot system with Vista 64 and XP 32. I recently upgraded from 4 gb ram to 8 gb ram. When I did so, I stopped being able to boot into XP. A blue screen with the standard light blue "you've gone and done it now" writing appears, but too briefly to read and the system reboots.

I'm guessing this is related to the 4 more gb of ram. duh, eh? My question is this... I'm ok with Windows XP using only a couple of those Gbs of ram (I only use it for some old legacy programs -WordPerfect - and legacy games). I just want it to boot... so is there some way of tricking the computer in to thinking I have less ram or getting XP to boot and just not use the additional ram?

 

[almartin]

Try to increase the size of the page file on xp so it will use more hard drive space instead of your ram. 32 bit os will only see 3 gigs of ram anyway but should still run ok. boot from your win vista disk and run repair.