Win98 and 512MB Ram

[GT98]

I remember hearing problems with Windows 98 and 512MB of Ram. I tried pulling up the article on MS's Support site and it doesn't want to work for me. What do I need to change if I run into this problem?

Scott

[Electric Amish]

I heard it was only a possible problem with >512mb.

amish

[Lucid]

Here ya go..

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q253/9/12.ASP

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[Kosh Naranek]

As Electric Amish said ... it's only if you have >512 MB

[Maggi]

I run 512MB using Win98 and it's really nice, especially since I dedicated 128MB of it to run as a RAM disk, taking all my temporary tasks like WinZIP, WinRAR etc.

[MultimediaMan]

512MB May or may not cause some problems...

But, if you've got that much RAM, by all means use it! Go over and get Cacheman , and assign healthy Diskcache and Filecache settings (FYI I use 20% of my RAM for 384MB systems and 15% for 512MB. YMMV)

Another cool thing you can do is assign IRQs a little extra RAM as well: you do this in the system.ini file...check here for details. Dunno if it REALLY works, but every machine I've used it on has seemed to run better with it than without. Again, YMMV.

M^3

[KvHagedorn]

I was worried about this as well, but now that I have upgraded, I've seen no problems at all. Perhaps using registered ECC DIMMs helps, or perhaps I would indeed see no problems until I went above 512MB..

[Jon P. Inghram]

I'm running Win98 with 768 megs of RAM in a 440BX board without any problems. Cacheman's very handy BTW.

[TnT]

Hey that IRQ thing seems to have helped my ping a bit while playing Half-Life. I'm on a school T1 line and I usually ping around 100 to certain servers, but now I'm getting around 50.

My SB Live is also on that IRQ, I wonder if this will help the dropped frames while capturing video. Guess I'll find out later.

[J1NG]

I wouldn't worry about it. It doesn't occur to EVERY single platform out there. I've already tried several systems on Windows 98SE with >512 RAM (Basically a LOT ) and have had no problems. But I have to say that I've ALWAYS used the Registered ECC RAM when doing this, that may help stop it like someone said above, I'm not sure. But as many people have said, it only occurs to certain systems with Win98.

J1NG

[Patrick]

There's NO problem.

I have 1024 Mbs of (non-registered) RAM installed on my Asus CUBX board running Win98se with no problems. We covered all this in an earlier thread you might want to check out.

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27925&highlight=generic

Having Cacheman installed probably helped me avoid any potential trouble.