Win 98 can't handle more 512mbs

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Sun May 05, 2002 9:35 am

I'm writing this to let ppl know in case there trying to upgrade ram in 98. I was going nuts trying to figure out why I couldn't 98 to take ram I bought. I have an asuz board that handles upto 1.5 gig. When I installed more ram it caused leaks and screwed up connection to net. I could'nt figure out what was causing all thease promblems or how to make ram work past 512mbs. Here's the answer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... US;q253912

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun May 05, 2002 10:38 am

Yeah you figured it out the hard way although it's well known

, 98 & ME can't handle alot of RAM like 2K & XP can. Looks like you might start looking to upgrade to XP, trust me it's WELL worth it.

Lazlow · Post by **Lazlow** » Sun May 05, 2002 5:10 pm

yeah after you have your 1,500 mb of ram DISABLE VIRTUAL MEMORY

CaptainSpeleo · Post by **CaptainSpeleo** » Mon May 06, 2002 7:20 am

I disagree. Some programs will refuse to run without virtual memory being enabled.

http://9337387.home.icq.com/index.html

Lazlow · Post by **Lazlow** » Mon May 06, 2002 8:29 am

yeah i forgot to say that

CaptainSpeleo · Post by **CaptainSpeleo** » Mon May 06, 2002 10:30 am

Mnosteele:

I just recently read on a website(which I won't mention) that 95 and 98 will run with up to 2 GB of RAM with a motherboard and chipset that supports that amount. 2 GB! Can you believe that?

I think the vast majority of us(including Microsoft) will agree that 512 MB of RAM is the most you want to use with 95 and 98. XP is a different story.

http://9337387.home.icq.com/index.html

Micro · Post by **Micro** » Mon May 06, 2002 12:30 pm

This is all old news, and wrong also.

The Win9x OS can/always has been able to physically address AND USE up to 4gig of memory.

The ONLY requirement to use over 512meg of memory is that the line "maxfilecache=524288" be included in the [VCache] section of the system.ini file, to stop file name caching from creating problems.

And if you think it doesn't make a difference, try rerendering a large multilayer drawing in Autocad or complex transform in Photoshop, with .5gig and with 2gig in Win9x and you'll see the difference right away, guaranteed

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Mon May 06, 2002 1:12 pm

Thanx to all that reply micro had it right
Micro thanx it worked i couldn't belive it I would send u some
money for that I was banging my head against wall for hours.

CaptainSpeleo · Post by **CaptainSpeleo** » Mon May 06, 2002 3:56 pm

Thanks, Micro. I bow to my erroneous comment. I'm always glad to learn something new.

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Mon May 06, 2002 6:13 pm

I did have it working but Ie internet expoler was crashing every two minutes

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Win 98 can't handle more 512mbs

Win 98 can't handle more 512mbs

micro i know it's old but i couldn't figure it out

it did work but