PAE visual studio problems

[Guest MECX]

OK when i installed the smartphone SDK and Embedded C++ onto my A64 system i got loads of errors kicking up about 'PAE mode', according to microsoft this is only enabled if you have more that 4GB of memory, hmmm i only have 1GB and its still on i thought.

After ALOT of playing with the boot.ini trying to switch off this PAE garbage it just wouldent go away.

Anyway this problem infact boils down to the 'data execution prevention' found on A64 and pentium 4 systems. If you have DEP you need to have PAE ON beacue the OS needs to access an extra bit of data.

anyway heres what you have to do to stop getting these errors.

Firstly right click on My Computer in the start menu and go to properties, check if your in PAE mode by looking at the bottom under 'computer:' it will say sumthin like 'PAE mode' somewhere.

Now you need to edit your BOOT.ini file, (if you mess this up you can cause your computer to stop from booting, its a total mess to sort out so at your own risk blah blah blah)

ok so right click on my computer again and click on the 'Advanced' tab then under 'startup and recovery' cick the setting button.

Now click edit and add these two switches to your boot.ini "/execute /NOPAE" (without quotes) and remove and switches with the /Noexecute tag.

I hope this helps someone as it was a total pain for me.

Feel free to PM me if you get stuck or want to know more detail.