Comments on: How to Enable PAE in x86 32-bit Windows Server 2003 and 2000 to Use Large 4GB or More RAM Memory

By: James Battles

James Battles — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:43:19 +0000

The PAE boot ini works fine to raise page file but the window report at least so far is still 3.12 and also correct post of 4gb in bios. I was able to raise page to 4790 with a max of 5500 but could have gone higher I expect.
I guess I am feeling my way along and will find out more. I think I need a bios upgrade because the award bios shows 4096 in the bios but at post it looks like 3200….. I will nail it down soon. I need to run vhd 2008 enterprise inside a win2k3 enterprise server for studies.

By: Netto

Netto — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:32:35 +0000

O XPnão vem com a função /PAE ativada no boot.ini, é necssário ativa-la, para isso:
1) Clique em INICIAR/EXECUTAR, digite CMD e clique em OK, depois;
2) digite via comando CD\ e enter para ir para a raiz principal, depois;
3) digite ATTRIB -H -A -R -S BOOT.INI
4) digite EDIT BOOT.INI e logo após a linha multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partição (1) \ WINNT = “Microsoft Windows XP Professional”
/fastdetect, adicione /PAE, ficando assim:

multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partição (1) \ WINNT = “Microsoft Windows XP Professional”
/fastdetect /PAE

By: mbah gendeng

mbah gendeng — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:06:57 +0000

i dont know about computer but now i will

By: hari babu

hari babu — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:58:36 +0000

It is possible? 2003 server standard edition 32 bit supports 8gb ram with PAE

By: RaFi

RaFi — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:13:21 +0000

According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888732

Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition supports 128GB, not 4GB.

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By: Artem S. Tashkinov

Artem S. Tashkinov — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:48:29 +0000

Not a standard edition of Win2k3.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:14:56 +0000

Windows Server 2003 do support more than 4GB with PAE enabled.

By: Artem S. Tashkinov

Artem S. Tashkinov — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:28:44 +0000

PAE is enabled by default in Windows XP and 2003 – no options are required in boot.ini.

But both 32bit Windows XP and 32bit Win 2003 standard do not support more than around 3.3GB of RAM due to software limitations imposed by Microsoft. 32bit Linux supports up to 64GB of RAM just fine.

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Sat, 31 May 2008 17:37:46 +0000

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