I changed Physical RAM from 2GB to 3GB but WinXP still reports 2GB RAM?
My Computer (right-click) Properties says "2.00 GB of RAM Physical Address Extension"
I know that part-enabling of PAE in this case is there only for the Data Execution Prevention option.
My Asus P5B-Plus "Vista Edition" motherboard has 4 DIMM slots and will accept up to 4 x 2GB DIMMs.
This model of the motherboard has a factory-fitted 512MB solid state storage device known as an ASAP which was intended to support the Windows Vista Ready-Boost feature! It shows up as a removable disk drive but it would be removable only by very careful desoldering!
When I installed Windows XP 32bit SP3 I had 4 x 512 DIMMs fitted to give 2GB RAM.
I recently replaced the DIMMs in slots 1 & 2 with 1GB DIMMs to five 3GB RAM total.
WinXP still reports 2GB RAM though SI reports 3070 MB. BIOS and CPU-Z say 3072 MB.
The mobo book says it will accept different size DIMMS in Channel A and Channel B but DIMMs in each channel should be same size. That's what I've done. All DIMMs are PC2-6400 with same SPDs. Only lower portion (1GB) of larger channel DIMMs is mapped to operate in dual-channel mode. Remaining 1GB in Channel A is in single-channel mode.
BIOS POST says 3072MB OK with PC2-5300 in Asymmetric mode.
I have an ATI Radeon HD 5550 PCIEX video card fitted with onboard 1GB RAM.
There is no onboard video.
Windows retained the default system-managed "2040" page file size but suggested "3070" MB for the page file. So I selected Custom page file of 3070 min and 6140 max.
Is there a program (or method) I can run under Windows to exercise over 2 GB of the physical memory and check to see if this is working without using the page file?
Thanks for listening.
Bill H.
My Computer (right-click) Properties says "2.00 GB of RAM Physical Address Extension"
I know that part-enabling of PAE in this case is there only for the Data Execution Prevention option.
My Asus P5B-Plus "Vista Edition" motherboard has 4 DIMM slots and will accept up to 4 x 2GB DIMMs.
This model of the motherboard has a factory-fitted 512MB solid state storage device known as an ASAP which was intended to support the Windows Vista Ready-Boost feature! It shows up as a removable disk drive but it would be removable only by very careful desoldering!
When I installed Windows XP 32bit SP3 I had 4 x 512 DIMMs fitted to give 2GB RAM.
I recently replaced the DIMMs in slots 1 & 2 with 1GB DIMMs to five 3GB RAM total.
WinXP still reports 2GB RAM though SI reports 3070 MB. BIOS and CPU-Z say 3072 MB.
The mobo book says it will accept different size DIMMS in Channel A and Channel B but DIMMs in each channel should be same size. That's what I've done. All DIMMs are PC2-6400 with same SPDs. Only lower portion (1GB) of larger channel DIMMs is mapped to operate in dual-channel mode. Remaining 1GB in Channel A is in single-channel mode.
BIOS POST says 3072MB OK with PC2-5300 in Asymmetric mode.
I have an ATI Radeon HD 5550 PCIEX video card fitted with onboard 1GB RAM.
There is no onboard video.
Windows retained the default system-managed "2040" page file size but suggested "3070" MB for the page file. So I selected Custom page file of 3070 min and 6140 max.
Is there a program (or method) I can run under Windows to exercise over 2 GB of the physical memory and check to see if this is working without using the page file?
Thanks for listening.
Bill H.