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Editing my "boot.ini" to use 3 GB doesn't work as before?

by Michel Petrucci Feb 9, 2009 10:40PM PST

Hi. I am using Inventor and I need 3G on my system to fully use the program. When I installed it for the 1st time, I edited my "boot.in" as folow: "([boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 3GB" /3GB /fastdetect)" and was perfectly working. Unfortunately, Sunday I had a virus and to had 2format and re-install windows XP again. I did the same with my "new" boot.ini file but does not work. my new "boot.ini" now contains: "/fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn"
At the end of the string. Is that the reason that it don't recognize my "3 G" on boot???

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Try the 3G switch at the end

by Slikkster Feb 9, 2009 11:33PM PST

Read this posting:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.asp?m=872056

Frankly, I'm not convinced there's any performance benefit from it, however. And there's a good chance of instability or performance hits, too. Dansdata has a good article explaining the 3G limitations of XP and why messing about with boot.ini switches rarely help and frequently hurt:

http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm

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