If there aren't many hardware devices on the PCI and/or PCI-Express bus that 
consume memory addresses, then you'll see close to your 4GB of RAM. I have an 
older HP box that sees only about 50MB short of 4GB (the video card and a few 
other things consume that 50MB)

Cheers
Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, 11 October 2008 8:46 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Ok this is weird - memory on a 32-bit Win2000 server...
>
> Happy Friday ladies & gents...
>
> Ok, on a 32-bit system, you generally cannot get a full 4gb of RAM
> available, at least without PAE, however I just threw 4gb of RAM into one of
> our older Xeon servers, a Supermicro Superserver 6012L-6, running 2000
> Server standard, SP4, and the system properties dialog shows all 4gb.  WTF?

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