re: Win9x (Max) RAM
Saturday, October 6, 2007 at 9:23 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2228 messages posted)
Most of the time when I am dual booting between W98 and Win2K, and want a GB of RAM
in the machine, I am installing W98 first, and leave out the second DIMM for the
initial steps, but at least once I was able to complete almost an entire install
(with the pair of 512 DIMMs in place) before I had to deal with the Vcache setting.
I have no idea what made that system an exception.
Only once, among half a dozen systems, plus or minus, on which I was dealing with
the 512 MB barrier, have I had to tell the system it didn't have a GB after all.
That one needed both the Vcache setting, and a 768 MB limit setting.
.
Kiwi
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On Saturday, October 6, 2007 at 8:18 am, DNA wrote:
>PS: Win9x won't even run at all if there is 2 GB or more of physical RAM installed,
>because 2 GB of total memory (swap file and physical memory combined) is all that
>Win9x can address, and unfortunately Windows is designed to work with a large swap
>file (or 'page file') on the hard drive (and this is even more accentuated under
>Windows NT versions, such as 2000 and XP). Even more fun is Linux, which demands
>a Swapfile partition (which would actually be the best idea for Windows,
as
>well!)
>
>Funny how your machine would only go in Safe Mode (with the 1 GB stick installed),
>I would have to remove one of the 512 MB RAM sticks to get my Athlon 3000 machine
>to boot in Win98 Safe Mode!
>
>I was able to get a 1 GB RAM machine to boot in Win98 Safe Mode once, because this
>machine had 64 MB of the system RAM allocated to onboard video, so Win98 saw '960
>MB' of RAM. I still had to use the MaxPhysPage line in System.ini, because
>at '960 MB' of RAM, it had strange side effects, such as no browser being able to
>connect to the Internet (IE, Firefox, Opera), which were immediately fixed when
MaxPhysPage
>was set to '30000' (768 MB) and the system was rebooted. It's still running fine
>for its owner a year later...
>
>If you're building a Win9x box with something like a Socket 754 AMD / Socket 775
>Intel budget Mainboard/CPU combo (with only AGP and PCI slots, of course!), the
board
>likely won't have 'dual-channel' RAM, so you can get one 512 stick and one 256 stick,
>and have 768 MB of RAM (enough to run Win XP or Linux well, for 'dual-boot' systems...)
>
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- Win9x RAM (DNA: Saturday, October 6, 2007 at 8:18 am)
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