P4C800E deluxe Intel Prescott ready?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ulrich F. Heidenreich
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Austin, Ulrich, Dan, Paul et al:
Greetings and hallucinations from just north of Fantasy Land (Washington,
DC)!
If you have more than 512 MB of RAM on a Windows 98SE or (shudder) ME
system, there is a work around. What is going on is that the CPUs can only
map 4 GB of memory addresses. Add more than 512 MB of RAM and you wind up
trying to do just that. The system maps addresses for virtual RAM which is
about 3X your actual RAM. You will need to edit your system registry's
[VCache] to limit the MaxFileCache to under 524288 (KB). It should look like
this:
[VCache]
MaxFileCache=524288

Sometimes a large memory count on a video card can play havoc with this,
too. I guess that it depends on how the video card uses the memory. In that
case, subtract the amount of RAM on the card from MaxFileCache.
If you want to see if this works, try going to a DOS window. If you have it
set too high, opening the window will tell you that you are out of memory.

Ulrich,
Please note the following URL. I suspect that you would understand this
link. :-D Tschuß
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;de;D43699
Peace,
Paul
 
You tried installing a 7+ year old OS on a new MB. Grab a copy of XP Pro
and life will be much better for you and that system.
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Hi Ulrich -

Yeah, get rid Win 98 immediately and go with DanO's suggestion. I
thought a big reason for using that board was the ability to use full
raid, and you wouldn't be able to do that with Win 98. I mean, all
that new, updated h/w running on that crappy o/s. :(

Good luck,

bmcky

Boston, MA,
USA
 
Paul D. Motzenbecker said:
If you have more than 512 MB of RAM on a Windows 98SE or (shudder) ME
system, there is a work around [..]
You will need to edit your system registry's
[VCache] to limit the MaxFileCache to under 524288
Click to expand...

Exactly that patch didn't help. Try to read first (e.g.
<[email protected]>) and then to answer.

No offence,
Ulrich
 
bmcky in said:
I thought a big reason for using that board was the ability to use full
raid
Click to expand...

I'm sorry: No.
I just wanted a worthy (and stable) successor for my good old P2B-LS.

CU!
Ulrich
 
I'm sorry: No.
I just wanted a worthy (and stable) successor for my good old P2B-LS.

CU!
Ulrich
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Ok then, think of it this way:

You're worthy, stable, good old P2B-LS has been hurt in an attack by
unscroupulous AMD terrorist-engineers. They didn't mean to do it, it
was collateral damage. You could retire the loyal, stabile, P2B-LS
and use it perhaps as a print server. OR:

You could rebuild the P2B-LS with the latest circuitry, operating
systems & electronics engineering; you could make it stronger, faster,
more intelligent and able to do things it had never been able to
imagine before, with a state-of-the art operating system. If you did
all that, you'd have this ASUS board. Now go and install XP Pro and
have some fun.

ATI has an updated driver set for all their Radeon boards, so you
might check them later on, but I'd bet that system is going to run
like a raped ape once its configured with an appropriate O/S.

Good luck,

bmcky

Boston, MA
 
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