PAE in Prolian DL 380 G3 Windows 2003 x86

[andrey1983]

Hi all!
I have ProLiant DL 380 G3 with Windows Server 2003 SP2 R2 x86. It has physically 6,5 Gb of RAM, but Windows can see only 3,5 of RAM. I cant enable PAE in the BIOS. Please, can U tell me in details how to enable it in BIOS?

Server info:
Management Processor Firmware (Active) 1.92
System ROM Firmware-P29 (Active) 2004.09.15

Thanx!

[Azamat · Accepted solution]

Hi, Andrey
Did you write PAE parameter in the boot of the OS? if nope, add it... if you`ll need help, you can write to me (azamat@hp.com).

P.S.: S nastupaushim novim godom!

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

its alsom depend on your Windows 2003 version, check this link from MS :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx

mikap

[Azamat]

yeah, right
Win2K3 Standart x86 (32 bit) support only 4 GB, Standart x64 (64bit) supports 16 GB (not sure, but something like this). i hope you have in stalled Win2K3 Enterprise Edition.
so put the parameter /PAE in the c:\boot.ini (c: - system disk, if system disk has different letter, edit it) add /PAE in the boot line

Ex:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Enterprise" /fastdetect /PAE

[andrey1983]

All done!
/PAE included

4 GB of RAM availeble ((( Standard Ed x86((((

This is empty server. We have licensed Enterprise, so reinstall is necessarily )))

Thanx all!

[andrey1983]

/PAE

[u84823]

If you enable DEP (maybe NX bit) in the BIOS, and enable DEP in Windows, this will also achieve the same.