ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

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Hi Lawrywild!

Thanks for maintaining this amazing thread!

I have the following problem, maybe someone can help me out!

Spec's are in sig(workstation).

I am running XP x64 and BIOS 2406

When I enable memory remap feature, in order to use 4GB's of RAM, windows crashes right after the loading screen - just goes to a black screen when the desktop should load. I can get into safe mode and memtest86+ and Prime95 report no errors at all after hours and hours.

If I disable the memory remap feature, everything works exactly right, except that the BIOS only reads 3072MB's of RAM. in the MAIN tab, under system information it says:

System memory -
Total - 4096
appropriated - 1024
available - 3072

How on earth do I fix this? I have been looking through the Asus forums but found nothing...

What does appropriated mean? the manual says nothing about it or the remap feature.

EDIT: I went to BIOS 2302 - no change in this problem.

I do not have service pack 2 installed, this is a complete clean reinstall as the previous install kicked the bucket. I am downloading it now - hopefully it might fix something.