System memory low

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Pete Wood

High, can anyone explain the following please....

I have an Asus Mobo A7N8X Deluxe with 512mb of Corsair memory.
I added an extra Strip of 256mb Corsair mem bringing the total to 796Mb of
ram.
The system would then say after booting up that it was low on memory or if i
played windows media player, it would say the same.
After removing the 256mb the system now runs fine??
What could be causing the problem?
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Pete Wood
 
High, can anyone explain the following please....

I have an Asus Mobo A7N8X Deluxe with 512mb of Corsair memory.
I added an extra Strip of 256mb Corsair mem bringing the total to 796Mb of
ram.
The system would then say after booting up that it was low on memory or if i
played windows media player, it would say the same.
After removing the 256mb the system now runs fine??
What could be causing the problem?
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Pete Wood
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Jim's right. If you're running Win98, you have to play around with
some of the settings in win.ini or system.ini. Win98 doesn't like
more than 512 MB of RAM. Why not switch to XP and all your memory
will be recognized and used (if required)?

Pete
 
If you're using Windows 9x/Me, short answer is, save yourself some trouble
and don't use Windows 9x/Me on a machine with that amount of RAM installed..
 
Robert Hancock said:
If you're using Windows 9x/Me, short answer is, save yourself some trouble
and don't use Windows 9x/Me on a machine with that amount of RAM installed..
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Or 'bodge round the problem', by manually limiting the memory handling
algorithm.
Add the lines:
MaxFileCache=512000
MaxPhysPage=20000
to the [vcache] section of system.ini
if
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If this is W9x, the memory manager, can go into a sort of 'runaway'
condition when the memory is more than 512MB. The lines in system.ini,
prevent this happening, but there will be no detectable performance gain
over 512MB (unless you are using a third party memory manager).
If you want to really 'use' the extra memory, switch to a proper 32bit OS.

Best Wishes
 
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