Thread: What happens with 4Gb RAM under XP?
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Old 25-01-2008, 08:11 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Re: What happens with 4Gb RAM under XP?
Originally Posted by Agent View Post
Aye, its 4Gb natively, but almost all other 32bit OS's support PAE. Even Windows 2000 (Intel Physical Addressing Extensions (PAE) in Windows 2000) which allows addressing far above 4Gb.

XP has PAE purposely locked out sadly.
Mad isn't it?
All the PAE switch lets you do is see the RAM. The OS will still only address 4gb of ram in total and will not use any additional RAM above this although you'll be able to see it.
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