Not a bug, that's the Microsoft artificial memory map limit on 32bit OS to
(ostensibly) prevent driver issues caused by brain dead drivers writing to 64bit
addresses as if they were 32bit which is also why x64 is so draconian about signed
drivers! In other words despite PAE MS prevents working outside 32bit/4GB memory
space on32bit OS. This was the subject of much discussion a few months ago here and
someone posted a link to the conspiracy guy who "outed" M$' secret agenda, LOL.
Now assuming x64 hardware, switch to a x64 OS (caveat "The BIOS must support the
memory remapping feature") to get 4GB+ addressable w/ device memory mapped above that.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605
On 4/30/2010 3:35 PM, Bryan Seitz wrote:
Yeah I've seen that bug too, even with /PAE etc still doesn't fix it.
You should upgrade to Win7-64 :)
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 06:32:30PM -0400, Jason Carson wrote:
I have 6 GB of RAM and a GeForce 295 with 1.7 GB of memory but am running
WinXP 32 bit and my system only shows that I have 2.49 GB of RAM.
Well, it does sort of sound like that. I have Win 7 ultimate with 6GB
RAM.
When I right-click on My Computer and select properties, it says I have
6.0GB. On my work machine (4GB RAM) with XP and 2 graphic cards, it says
I
have about 2.89GB RAM.
