Got a link to the KB article? Makes me wonder if that's related to not having PAE
since XP32 is most definitely supports a 4GB map:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEdrv.mspx
My current system is PAE enabled, 2GB RAM w/ a 512MB video card (512MB*2 actually)
and I'm not showing an RAM loss. Why would I @3GB given the 4GB limit?
Winterlight wrote:
At 07:12 PM 11/14/2008, you wrote:
No, it's a 4GB wide address space so you'd loose nothing @3GB of RAM
with a 512-1024MB card.
I disagree, there is lots of articles about this including in MS
Knowledge base. I have actually experienced the drop after installing a
video card. In Control Panel\System\General Tab I started out with so
much ram and then installed a video card with twice as much RAM and when
I checked again my system ram had dropped an appropriate amount.
Winterlight wrote:
At 08:34 AM 11/14/2008, you wrote:
heck running 512 and thinking I need to goto gig, except needs more
POWER
If you are running 32 bit OS, then a one GB card will take another
512megs of addressable memory.
this means if you are currently showing 3GB of RAM with a 512meg
video card, and you install a 1GB video card then you will reduce
your system memory by 512megs.
power leads to heat, heat leads to trouble, trouble leads to the
dark side
fp
