Rode,
 
I would like to know what you are using to create your RAM drive in
XP.  I've looked from time to time but I was never able to find
something that I liked.  Am I missing something incredibly obvious? 
Thanks.
 
- Wayne Copeland

>>> [log in to unmask] 9/8/07 3:33 PM >>>

At 11:14 AM 9/6/2007, you wrote:
>Sorry Rode,
>  " This is incorrect, Windows 2000 SP4 supports up to 2GB of RAM.
32 bit
>  Windows XP PRO SP2 supports up to 3.25GB of RAM."
>
>We are both wrong, but I'll  stand on my statement, that 2GB is
the 
>highest you can have.


Your statement is still wrong. This has been extensively tested,
and 
written about in Maximum PC in the last two years. 2GB is the sweet

spot for RAM in XP PRO, as far as performance is concerned, so when

Maximum PC builds their annual God Box they stay with 2GB for 
machines running XP PRO. Their tests have shown that above 2GB 
gaming, and normal use shows very little improvement in
performance.

However, XP PRO will support 3.25 GB RAM, and without doing
anything 
to the boot.ini file.
I am running 4GB of RAM in XP PRO SP2 on a dual 3.06 Xeon
Workstation.

Windows reports the use of 4GB of RAM in System information, but in

both Task Manager, and >>control panel>> System, it shows 3.25 GB
of RAM.

http://members.cox.net/rode3/325.htm 

  I am running without a swap file, and with a 1.5GB RAM drive, and
I 
still have plenty of RAM available to me. Yes, I am not able to use

800 megs of the installed RAM, but the 4 DIMM setup I have allows
me 
to take advantage of my motherboard supported memory dual access
mode.

Rode
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