- Joined
- Feb 25, 2009
- Messages
- 2,112
- Reaction score
- 71
- Points
- 48
- Your Mac's Specs
- Late 2013 rMBP, i7, 750m gpu, OSX versions 10.9.3, 10.10
Hi all,
Ok - first off - before everyone jumps one a few things about the windows install:
1) This is XP 32, it is installed and running normally.
2) I am fully aware that the max that XP 32 can access is 4 gigs, once you take out certain memory access, video memory, etc. reality is more between 3.25 and 3.5 gigs.
3) My system has 8 gigs of ram, I know I can't access that much without a 64 bit OS installed, I am not moving my bootcamp to Vista, I really don't mind not having all 8 gigs.
Now, what does bug me is I am not getting the 3.x gig I should see with XP 32 - instead I'm seeing around 2.x gig.
Now, I remember reading about this somewhere, a while back, but I can't for the life of me remember where it was nor what search terms brought it up. It was an issue someone else ran into as well and either it was a normal occurance due to the way XP 32 ran on a system like mine (Mac Pro 2xquad core, 8 gig) or it was something else that was adjustable, but I'm not sure which. and of course, since I didn't book mark it at the time, I can't find the page any more.
Anyone who either knows the answer, or knows where this reference is so I can go find it again, I'd be most appreciative!
Ok - first off - before everyone jumps one a few things about the windows install:
1) This is XP 32, it is installed and running normally.
2) I am fully aware that the max that XP 32 can access is 4 gigs, once you take out certain memory access, video memory, etc. reality is more between 3.25 and 3.5 gigs.
3) My system has 8 gigs of ram, I know I can't access that much without a 64 bit OS installed, I am not moving my bootcamp to Vista, I really don't mind not having all 8 gigs.
Now, what does bug me is I am not getting the 3.x gig I should see with XP 32 - instead I'm seeing around 2.x gig.
Now, I remember reading about this somewhere, a while back, but I can't for the life of me remember where it was nor what search terms brought it up. It was an issue someone else ran into as well and either it was a normal occurance due to the way XP 32 ran on a system like mine (Mac Pro 2xquad core, 8 gig) or it was something else that was adjustable, but I'm not sure which. and of course, since I didn't book mark it at the time, I can't find the page any more.
Anyone who either knows the answer, or knows where this reference is so I can go find it again, I'd be most appreciative!