windows 98 Ram limit 512

[Guest]

Does anyone know if it is possible to do something in windows 98 to allow it to recognize more than 512 of ram, preferably up to 1024

Youu help is apprieciated,
Thank you

Marc

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Does anyone know if it is possible to do something in windows 98 to
allow it to recognize more than 512 of ram, preferably up to

1024?


Answered yesterday. Please don't ask the same questions over
again. Read the answers. Here it is again.

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

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"Marc D" (e-mail address removed) wrote in message:

| Does anyone know if it is possible to do something in windows 98 to allow it to recognize more than 512 of
ram, preferably up to 1024?
|
| Youu help is apprieciated,
| Thank you,
|
| Marc

 

[CS]

Does anyone know if it is possible to do something in windows 98 to allow it to recognize more than 512 of ram, preferably up to 1024?

Youu help is apprieciated,
Thank you,

Marc

98 has no problem with recognizing more than 512 mb of system memory
or 1024 mb for that matter. If there are any limitations, it's
probably being imposed by your motherboard. Check your computer
manual or motherboard manual.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Does anyone know if it is possible to do something in windows 98 to allow it to recognize more than 512 of ram, preferably up to 1024?

Open system.ini in a text editor. Find the [vcache] section, and add
this line:

MaxFileCache=512000

And ask your Win98 questions in one of the Win98 groups
(microsoft.public.win98.* hierarchy).

 

[Alex Nichol]

Does anyone know if it is possible to do something in windows 98 to allow it to recognize more than 512 of ram, preferably up to 1024?

IN its system.ini file, under the head
[vcache]
add the line
MaxFileCache=500000

This BTW is a group for Windows XP - not Win98, which is at
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
but that is the answer

 

[David H. Lipman]

Wrong !

See Ken Blake's post.

Dave


| 98 has no problem with recognizing more than 512 mb of system memory
| or 1024 mb for that matter. If there are any limitations, it's
| probably being imposed by your motherboard. Check your computer
| manual or motherboard manual.

 

[Guest]

RE START YOU COMPUTER IN MS DOS AND TRY CHECK IN YOU DISK THRU DOS... YOU NEED TO CREATE A START UP DISK TO RUN A SCAN DISK IN DOS

 

[CS]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:13:08 -0500, "David H. Lipman"

Thanks. I saw Alex's post instead. I had forgot about that statement
in system.ini.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Good because it is confusing to read the KB doc and other references that show...

MaxFileCache=52000
..or.
MaxFileCache=512000

Dave



| On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:13:08 -0500, "David H. Lipman"
|
| Thanks. I saw Alex's post instead. I had forgot about that statement
| in system.ini.
|
| >Wrong !
| >
| >See Ken Blake's post.
| >
| >Dave
| >
| >
| >| >| 98 has no problem with recognizing more than 512 mb of system memory
| >| or 1024 mb for that matter. If there are any limitations, it's
| >| probably being imposed by your motherboard. Check your computer
| >| manual or motherboard manual.
| >
|

 

[David H. Lipman]

You need to know the facts and repair that broken "Caps Lock" key !

Dave



| RE START YOU COMPUTER IN MS DOS AND TRY CHECK IN YOU DISK THRU DOS... YOU NEED TO CREATE A
START UP DISK TO RUN A SCAN DISK IN DOS