Windows badmem

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Old 10-07-2008, 08:21 AM
Default Windows badmem

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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Old 10-07-2008, 02:40 PM
Default Re: Windows badmem


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

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
>
> [1]
>
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> hackerkey://v4sw5hw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7LwXm4l7Gi2e2t4b7Ken4/7a16s0r1p-5.62/-6.56g5OR


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Old 10-08-2008, 12:15 AM
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Mike Walsh wrote:
>
> 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

>
> 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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