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enabling PAE mode freezes display
Name: hemantagrawal Date: June 8, 2006 at 06:25:23 Pacific OS: Windows 2003 Enterprise S CPU/Ram: Dual Xeon, 6GB Product: Supermicro
Comment:
I have a Dual-Xeon system with 6GB memory, 250GB HDD and Geforce 6200 display card. When I load Windows 2003 Server, I am unable to access entire memory installed. When I enable PAE mode, after booting the display freezes on the server. I can access the server from other systems on the network and the server is working and detects all the memory installed. But the display on the server is frozen so I cannot work on the server. I have tried using the latest nVidia WHQL drivers but it did not help
Name: hemantagrawal Date: June 9, 2006 at 05:13:53 Pacific
Reply:
I have done further work on it and it is definitely a problem with the nVidia driver. When I use Standard VGA driver everything is fine but when I use nVidia drivers it works only with PAE disabled. As soon as I enable PAE, Windows starts acting up. I have tried Forceware drivers, WDM drivers, everything I could find. The problem is nVidia officially does not have drivers for Windows Server 32 bit. It has drivers for Windows 2000 32 bit OR Windows 2003 64 bit. Therefore I am having to use Windows 2000/XP drivers.
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