win98se with i gig of ram?

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Don Ward

new home built pent 4 @2,4mhz has one gig of ram some one said with
win98se that much ram cant be utalized ... what does oper sys have to do
with using ram?
Please help with accurate answer
don ward
 
Don said:
new home built pent 4 @2,4mhz has one gig of ram some one said with
win98se that much ram cant be utalized ... what does oper sys have to do
with using ram?
Please help with accurate answer
don ward
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Win98 can use 512mb of ram. It has to do with a built in 'feature' of
win98 and addressing.
 
Sooky Grumper said:
Win98 can use 512mb of ram. It has to do with a built in 'feature' of
win98 and addressing.
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I'm running 768mb of ram and haven't had any problems in Win98SE... did
I just get lucky?
 
How about Microsoft's answer:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304943

"Windows Me and Windows 98 are not designed to handle more than 1 GB
of RAM."

Jeff
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98SE uses 1GB just fine. I'm running with 1GB on two different boxes.
It is in use and the crunching program they run checks the amount of
avaliable RAM about every 5 hours. They always get full credit for
1GB. Neither box will boot with 1.5GB though. No matter what settings
are tried that MS lists they will not start up.

A7V133 1.4Ghz @ 1.5 1GB RAM Win98SE
A7N8X 2500+ @ 3200+ 1GB RAM Win 98SE
__________
If you give a little they give a lot.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/disco
 
Windows, all versions, manages RAM allocation to the various software
applications running. Win98se can only manage 512 MB of RAM. If you add
more, you'll get Registry errors.
 
This site summarises it well and links to an M$ knowledge base article:

http://www.memorystock.com/windows-memory.html

You really should upgrade to XP. Win98 can't use the RAM.
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Hoo, hoo there. Win98 should be fine with 1GB ram. If it isn't, you've
****ed it too much with 'tuning' utilities.

But above 512MB (or even sooner if, you've got a large AGP aperture)
you should limit the diskcache!
(there's no benefits to a larger agp aperture than 64MB)

in the System.ini file:

MinFileCache=262144
MaxFileCache=524288

if you've got more than 512MB ram.

The article seem to seriously misunderstand some things, about
memoryhandling, mapping and the Vcache! You do NOT get slower memory
access for larger ram!

Ancra
 
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