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What is the maximum amount of memory windows 2000 professional can handle. I know the minumim is 64 that ms requires, I have looked into many books and everyone lists the min but no one mentions the max and it appears on my practice exam.

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James

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The max is 4GB. Located this in MS Knowledge Base Article Q256070.

Rob

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Thank you rob I was at wits end and also choosing the wrong answer on my tests with the 2gig answer.

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For Home use I think 256 is also ideal.
But for the windows 2000 server family it would not be enough.
so be wise to use your memory in windows 2000 family.

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I knew 256 was not nearly enough to be the maximum I am running one gig on my system now. Thanks for the effort.

James

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Answer #1 is correct. The reason no one mentions the maximum is that, as a practical matter, it’s a hardware limitation rather than software. I have yet to find a workstation motherboard that supports 4gig of RAM. And, of course, if you can afford to run W2K Pro on a server hardware architecture that does support 4gig of RAM, you’re in another world entirely.

paul

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Thank you for backing up the answer rob gave me it was helpful and an interesting point. In most books with win2kpro they only mention the min.

James

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