Windows 98 recognize ram over 512

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Does anyone know of a way to set windows 98 so that it will recognize more than 512 of ram. Is there a way to get it to recognize up to 1024 of ram

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Marc
 
Greetings --

You really should be asking this in a Win98 news group, but yes,
it's possible. In fact, Win98 has no trouble recognizing amounts of
RAM over 512 Mb. For it to effectively _use_ that amount of RAM,
however, a minor setting in the registry must be changed.

Out of Memory Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;253912&Product=w98

You're lucky I remembered this; it's been nearly two years since
I've even _seen_ a computer running Win98, much less had to support
one. ;-}


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Marc D said:
Does anyone know of a way to set windows 98 so that it will recognize
more than 512 of ram. Is there a way to get it to recognize up to
1024 of ram?
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You're really off-topic here in a Windows XP newsgroup, however
you don't need to do anything special to get Windows 98 to
recognize 512MB. On its own it will recognize up to1 or 2GB
(depending on which MS Knowledge Base article you believe).

However, some machines have problems with over 512MB in WIndows
98. If yours is one of those, all you need to do is restrict the
size of the vcache to 512MB. To do that, edit the system.ini file
and, in the [vcache] section, add the following line:

MaxFileCache=52000
 
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