Well, my goal was not to frustrate you more or make you upset with me.

My first post simply pointed out that there may be a difference in reported
memory depending on where you look: e.g. System Property may report 4GB, but
task manager may report less.
I didn't refer to BCEDIT until you replied with: "I suppose I should have
asked "what are the steps required for using PAE to actually remap
addressing to the extended areas?"

To that, I sent you to the instruction manual.
Have a nice day.

"Sarah White" wrote in message
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I'm amazed that you're bothering to tell me that; my original post (top of
this thread) said that I used BCDEDIT to enable PAE.

As for changing "how memory is reported" I have two conflicting reports.

Report 1) Control Panel\System: 4.0GB (2.75GB before BCDEDIT - PAE)
Report 2) Task manager "performance tab" (Physical Memory) Total 2813MB

If you're saying style-2 (task manager or other) reports won't be changed
by PAE, are you able to cite / reference a specific article? I'm curious
if this is because my signed, WHQL drivers are trying to use the same
address as a large portion of my RAM, or if some entirely unexplained
thing is going on.

As for style 1, I hate to break it to you, but control panel - system
(easily opened using [win] + [break] keys) is reporting a different
(higher) number now that I'm using PAE: it actually says 4.0 GB now!

Thanks, good idea for providing that link explaining BCDEDIT under the new
windows bootloader. I personally found it a bit confusing (was very much
accustom to using boot.ini) Personally, I like the abbreviated info (even
though it isn't official) that I found he

http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=989

Note: I'm quite confused about the terms "nx" bit and "hot add" memory and
a few other terms in there. I know there was a reference in my bios menu
for something that might have been the "nx" bit... Some kind of security
feature under the same screenfull of settings that had virtualization,
disable core 1 (only use core 0) and CPU throttling.

Mark H wrote:
The point is:
If you don't have more than 4GB of memory, PAE will not change how
memory is reported.

It is supported, but only through BCEDIT: