Shades of the old "expanded" memory.
It's in M$'s own doco. All anyone has
to do is read it. Instead of quoting the URL.
Two years ago a friend had the embarrassing (for his boss!)
experience of ending up with a 12Gb Win2K Compaq box that he
could only use 4Gb of. Nothing more frustrating!
--
Cheers
Nuno Souto
wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam
"Telemachus" <telemachus_at_ulysseswillreturn.net> wrote in message
news:dviHa.18538$pK2.25695_at_news.indigo.ie...
> Did anyone actually read the Metalink articles I posted the references to ?
>
> Nuno is correct - it's a windowing driver . Good old below the line and
> above the line - and the only thing you can use the high memory for is for
> database buffers so you need to know what you want before setting this stuff
> up.
> "Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
> news:3eed8fb9$2$8262$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> > Yes it is right. The PAE is an *extension* driver,
> > like I said. Win2k ANY flavour will NOT, *natively*,
> > address more than 4Gb. Check in M$ own doco.
> >
> > Damn it: 32bits is 32 bits! I've been around long enough
> > that I KNOW it can't be done without an extra driver.
> >
> > THAT is what I said and I stand by every single word
> > of it!
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Nuno Souto
> > wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam
> > "Christoph Purrucker" <gugi_at_bigfoot.de> wrote in message
> > news:bcjr21$8v4$1_at_home.itg.ti.com...
> > > > Win2K cannot address more then 4GB memory so the extra RAM that you
> > > > added maybe going to waste. 2GB for OS and 2GB for rest of the apps
> > >
> > > Just not right. OP said, he is using 2k Adv. Server. This OS can
> > > address more memory (though I would not use any MS-OS on a server).
> > >
> > > cp
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Mon Jun 16 2003 - 07:42:49 CDT
