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re: dual boot with 1GB ram Friday, June 29, 2007 at 7:04 am Posted by Carl (369 messages posted) Go back to 512M windows 98 doesn't like more than that. On Friday, June 29, 2007 at 6:00 am, the ber wrote: >i have an athlon xp2500+. it's been running fine with 512 MB ram, with windows 98 >and windows 2000 in dual-boot. i just installed 512 MB more ram, and now windows >98 will not boot. i understand that windows 98 will not work with too much ram. can >i somehow trick windows 98 and tell it to see only 512 MB of ram, so that i can still >use both systems? >(i could live without windows 98, but my children want it for some older games.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot with 1GB ram Friday, June 29, 2007 at 7:44 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) Take out the extra memory and do the following, then put the extra memory back in: (Borrowed from another website..) Click START then select RUN and type in the text box "sysedit" (without the quotes) and click the OK button. The system configuration Editor window will open which will have 5 other windows within it. Each windows has a title, so click on the one that says "c:\windows\system.ini" to bring it to the front. Now scroll down until you see the entry [vcache] Normally it will have nothing under it. You need to type under it MaxFileCache=256000 so that it looks like this... [vcache] MaxFileCache=256000 If you do not find the [vcache] entry then just do the above at the very bottom of the entries so it is the last one. Then from the very top select FILE then select Exit. The computer will ask you if you want to save the current changes, click the YES button then the window will close and you are done. Now reset (restart) the computer.. On Friday, June 29, 2007 at 6:00 am, the ber wrote: >i have an athlon xp2500+. it's been running fine with 512 MB ram, with windows 98 >and windows 2000 in dual-boot. i just installed 512 MB more ram, and now windows >98 will not boot. i understand that windows 98 will not work with too much ram. can >i somehow trick windows 98 and tell it to see only 512 MB of ram, so that i can still >use both systems? >(i could live without windows 98, but my children want it for some older games.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dual boot with 1GB ram Friday, June 29, 2007 at 8:54 am Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |[...]it's been running fine with 512 MB ram, |with windows 98 and windows 2000 in dual-boot. |i just installed 512 MB more ram, and now windows 98 will not [start]. |i understand that windows 98 will not work with too much ram. | the ber | You (and Carl) have overstated the case. Out of the box, 98 doesn't like it--but it can be tweaked. C K hit the high points. Here's a page I like on this: (One topic of many) cache of http://www.mdgx.com/newtip8.htm ++MaxPhysPage-*-*-*-*-MSCONFIG.EXE+Q304943+Q184447 Here's another related Micros~1 Knowledge Base page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912 [Reply or follow-up to this message] MaxPhysPage=30000 Friday, June 29, 2007 at 9:30 am Posted by DNA (553 messages posted) As shown in my signature, I have Windows 98 running on 768 MB RAM on one desktop and 1 GB of RAM in the other. You need to add the entry MaxPhysPage=30000 to the [386Enh] section of (Windows)\System.ini , to limit the physical RAM used to 768 MB. Since System.ini is only loaded in Normal Mode, this does mean that a Windows 98 PC with 1 GB of physical RAM will not boot in Safe Mode (or in Selective Startup mode with "Load System.ini File" unchecked) unless some of the physical RAM is removed. My 768 MB PC does boot into Win98 Safe Mode without a problem! This page (http://thpc.info/ram/vcache98.html) has some excellent information. Scroll down to the "Large RAM PC's" section near the bottom. From my tests when setting up others' PC's: I did get Win98 to boot in Safe Mode on a PC with 1 GB of RAM when 64 MB was assigned (by the BIOS) to integrated video (so Win98 'saw' 960 MB RAM), but the MaxPhysPage=30000 line was still needed to correct strange errors occuring in Win98 Normal Mode (biggest of which was, no file downloads would happen from any browser, IE6, Firefox or Opera!) The couple of times I've tried to run 2 GB of Physical RAM in a Win98 system, that just kills 98 dead no matter what! 98 can only address 2 GB of RAM in total (physical, plus the hard drive paging or 'swap' file), so that much physical RAM plus the AGP aperature is something it can't deal with, 'tweaking' or not...... ------------------------------------------------------------- Athlon 1.1 - 768 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro IBM ThinkPad PIII 900 - 384 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2 Windows 2000 Server in the basement [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: MaxPhysPage=30000 Friday, June 29, 2007 at 11:36 am Posted by the ber (78 messages posted) thanks everybody! it seems like it should work. i'll post later this weekend with the result(s). On Friday, June 29, 2007 at 9:30 am, DNA wrote: >As shown in my signature, I have Windows 98 running on 768 MB RAM on one desktop >and 1 GB of RAM in the other. > >You need to add the entry MaxPhysPage=30000 to the [386Enh] section >of (Windows)\System.ini , to limit the physical RAM used to 768 MB. > >Since System.ini is only loaded in Normal Mode, this does mean that a Windows 98 >PC with 1 GB of physical RAM will not boot in Safe Mode (or in Selective Startup >mode with "Load System.ini File" unchecked) unless some of the physical RAM is removed. >My 768 MB PC does boot into Win98 Safe Mode without a problem! > >This page (http://thpc.info/ram/vcache98.html) >has some excellent information. Scroll down to the "Large RAM PC's" section near >the bottom. > >From my tests when setting up others' PC's: > >I did get Win98 to boot in Safe Mode on a PC with 1 GB of RAM when 64 MB was assigned >(by the BIOS) to integrated video (so Win98 'saw' 960 MB RAM), but the MaxPhysPage=30000 >line was still needed to correct strange errors occuring in Win98 Normal Mode (biggest >of which was, no file downloads would happen from any browser, IE6, Firefox or Opera!) > >The couple of times I've tried to run 2 GB of Physical RAM in a Win98 system, that >just kills 98 dead no matter what! 98 can only address 2 GB of RAM in total (physical, >plus the hard drive paging or 'swap' file), so that much physical RAM plus the AGP >aperature is something it can't deal with, 'tweaking' or not...... > >------------------------------------------------------------- [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: MaxPhysPage=30000 Monday, July 2, 2007 at 8:42 am Posted by Kiwi (2228 messages posted) Different systems and different Win98 setups don't always require a limit on actual RAM. I've had three or four dual booted (mostly Win98 with W2K) PCs with 1024 MBs of RAM, and only one had that requirement. . Kiwi ** On Friday, June 29, 2007 at 9:30 am, DNA wrote: > > >You need to add the entry MaxPhysPage=30000 to the [386Enh] section >of (Windows)\System.ini , to limit the physical RAM used to 768 MB. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: MaxPhysPage=30000 Wednesday, July 4, 2007 at 9:56 am Posted by the ber (78 messages posted) i said i would answer, but it took a bit longer because of my work. i used the suggestion of DNA, and now my windows 98 installation is happy and boots! thanks everyone. On Monday, July 2, 2007 at 8:42 am, Kiwi wrote: >Different systems and different Win98 setups don't always require a limit on actual >RAM. I've had three or four dual booted (mostly Win98 with W2K) PCs with 1024 MBs >of RAM, and only one had that requirement. > > > > . > >Kiwi > >** > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum