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Erik Hahn

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Oct 7, 2008, 8:21:55 AM10/7/08
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Is there any way to work around bad memory spots in Windows by not using
them? There is a way for Linux [1] but I don't know of any for Windows.

The problem is at about 760 MB and I have only one Gigabyte, a solution
that simply disables all memory higher than this point would be okay.

-Erik

[1] <http://badmem.sourceforge.net/docu/BadMEM-HOWTO.html>

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Mike Walsh

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Oct 7, 2008, 2:40:28 PM10/7/08
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According to my notes there is a Boot.ini switch:
/maxmem=nn nn = maximum memory in MB that WinNT will use
It works with WinNT; I have not tried it with WinXP

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Mike Walsh

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Oct 8, 2008, 12:15:31 AM10/8/08
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Mike Walsh wrote:
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> According to my notes there is a Boot.ini switch:
> /maxmem=nn nn = maximum memory in MB that WinNT will use
> It works with WinNT; I have not tried it with WinXP

It works on WinXP Home SP3 with 512 MB memory using /maxmem=450

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> Erik Hahn wrote:
> >
> > Is there any way to work around bad memory spots in Windows by not using
> > them? There is a way for Linux [1] but I don't know of any for Windows.
> >
> > The problem is at about 760 MB and I have only one Gigabyte, a solution
> > that simply disables all memory higher than this point would be okay.
> >
> > -Erik

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