How to open a Windows Server 2003 memory addressing extension

This article describes how to allow windows2003 Advanced Server to support large memory in cases where the system memory is greater than 4G:

Since Windows2003 32bit is a 32-bit operating system, problems that cannot be discovered in System properties will occur when the server is equipped with up to 4G of memory, so you must turn on the windows2003 server memory addressing extension feature ;Windows2003 Server will support up to 8G of memory after opening the memory addressing extension .

Here's how to turn on this feature:

1. First confirm that the system can recognize the number of memory, if your machine more than 4G of system memory, please continue the following steps

2. Click the Start menu, point to Run, jump out of the input box, and enter "edit C:\Boot.ini" in the input box.

3. At the end of the last line of the boot. ini file, make a space and then enter /PAE

4. Press alt+f to select Save

5. Close the window or press alt+f, select Close

6. After restarting the computer, enter the system view,Windows2000 has recognized the high capacity memory

Windows Server 2003 Web Edition : provides a web hosting and service platform for rapid development, deployment of Web services and applications. Supports 2 -way SMP (symmetric multi-processing ) system,2GB memory.

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition : for Small and medium business and departmental applications. Supports 4 -Way SMP,4GB memory.

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition : Suitable for centers with large organizations, with 32-bit and 64-bit two versions. Support 8 node cluster,NUMA , 8-way SMP, 32-bit version supports 32GB memory,64-bit version supports 64GB memory.

Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition: for enterprises that require strong scalability and high availability, there are 32-bit and 64-bit two versions. 32-bit version supports 32-way SMP,64GB memory,64-bit version supports 64-way SMP,512GB memory, two versions support 8-node cluster,NUMA

To enable Windows 2003 to support physical memory larger than 4GB, you must add the parameter/pae to the boot. ini file.

How to open a Windows Server 2003 memory addressing extension