Windows XP Pro 32BIT with 4GB of memory

[gtherreault]

I installed 4 x 1GB of memory on my system and when I run the sound recorder
I get an out of memory error. If I use 2 x 1GB of memory, it works fine.

Is XP compatible with 4GB of memory?

 

[Ed Covney]

Is XP compatible with 4GB of memory?

I believe your limit is 3 GB for 32-bit XP.

Ed

 

[kenkcj]

XP should be able to support up to 4GB of referenced memory, only being able
to use a little over 3GB of actual RAM. The remaining portion of that last
is usually referenced to other components (ie. sound card, video card). As
far as why you're getting an out of memory error, it could be that one of
the sticks of RAM is defective. I would test each stick in either 1 or 2
sticks at a time to ensure that all are working appropriately. If this works
then I'd test each RAM slot individually as one could have been rendered
useless.
Best of luck
-kenkcj

 

[Bob Harris]

XP can handle it.

But, did you check to see that your motherboard can? Just becasue it hase 4
slots that fit 1 Gig each does not mean that the motherboard was designed
for 1 Gig in each slot.

Also, I have seen cases in which an old program was written with some
assumption as to the maximum of RAM, disk, etc. That program may then
refuse to load or work correctly. I once even had an error that implied I
had insufficient RAM, because the program, which was win98 vintage, was
interpretting my 1Gig of RAM as some negative integer. In such a case the
solution is usually to use a newer version of the program, or some free-ware
alternative that was deisgned for XP.

 

[Paul]

I installed 4 x 1GB of memory on my system and when I run the sound recorder
I get an out of memory error. If I use 2 x 1GB of memory, it works fine.

Is XP compatible with 4GB of memory?

As Bob points out, the program likely records audio samples in memory.
It probably checks to see how long of a recording it can manage. If
the program uses a signed 32 bit integer, then 2GB is as large a positive
integer as could be used. The program should probably be using an
unsigned integer to do that check, which could handle a number as
big as 4GB.

If you want an alternative recording program, try Audacity.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html

Paul

 

[gtherreault]

If this can help anyone, it a problem with the Sound Recorder software in
Windows XP.

As stated on wikipedia.

“On computers with more than 2 GB of RAM, Sound Recorder will return an
error message saying there is not enough memory. This is a design fault of
older versions of Sound Recorder and cannot be resolved except by reducing
the amount of physical memory.â€
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Recorder_(Windows)

Thanks to everyone for responding.