[geeks] Greater than 4GB swapfile on XP...

[Dan Sikorski]

Mike Hebel wrote:
> A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: Dan Sikorski
>   
>> Mike Hebel wrote:
>>     
>>> Nada.  We run Solidworks here and from what our distributor told us it's
>>> unstable on 64-bit.  They don't _say_ 64-bit anywhere on them that I can
>>> see.
>>>
>>>       
>> This may be helpful:
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237740/en-us
>>
>> Do the machines with more than 4GB of pagefile have it in multiple
>> files, or a single one?
>>
>> The above article suggests that 32bit windows XP cannot have larger than
>> 4GB, and suggests a workaround of making multiple pagefiles on a single
>> volume.  (multiple pagefiles on different volumes is easily done with
>> the normal method.)
>>     
>
> BINGO!  The words under the 8192 models are Physical Address Extension! 
> So that means the kernel being loaded is the PAE one.  Since these are all
> SP3 wouldn't that mean I could add /PAE to the boot.ini file then?
>   
Hrm, i didn't realize that was an option with 32bit XP, but if it works 
on two of them, it should work on the rest.

Did the two of them come with 4GB, and the rest get upgraded sometime 
after the OS was installed?

    -Dan