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Old 20-05-2004, 07:03 PM   #1
Kyle Lang [MSFT]
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Also check out this article before using the /3GB switch

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;328269

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"MKINSEL" <michael.kinsel@gd-ais.com> wrote in message
news:2AD59A51-5E9A-4A77-A54E-0DDC1FD2F744@microsoft.com...
> I have 4 sticks of ECC PC-2100 1 GB Kingston RAM (KVR266X72C25/1G) and

Windows XP only sees this as 3.5 GB of RAM. As a WinXP MCP, I have been led
to believe that WinXP can support 4 GB of RAM, so what am I doing wrong?
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> TIA
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