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RE: Win98 problem with 1GB memory

LostInSpace — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:15:02 GMT

the problem with win 98 occurs at the 1gig mark, i have used 768m on win98 computers for Ages, and still do, for a short while i ran 1gig, but when i went up to 1.5 and 2g it did not work, so a guy HERE in this forum, made me a special program that works wonders, it EATS memory :-)

let me see if i can get it uploaded somewhere, its really small
http://www.boomspeed.com/leds/EATMEM.txt
THIS is actually a ZIP file, as they dont allow zips to be uploaded, you MUST change the TXT to ZIP.

ok so right click that, save it to your disk, rename to EATMEM.ZIP
unzipp it, and you will find 2 files, one is eatmem, and the other is the config.sys.

the config.sys is not nessiarily to be used, as yours might be different, but it shows an example of how to use it exactally (cause that is how it works on my computer) the call to eatmem.sys must be made right at first, before the OS finds all that memory and freaks out :-)

so i put the eatmem,sys program right on the root of the win98 disk, along with the other OS startup sys items. so it would find it easily. just add one of them lines to eat up byte of memory, eat up 512 or eat up 1gig as shown in the config.sys file, as soon as you get to 1gig everything should start working just fine, if it dont eat up more, if that dont work, then you (or me) did somthing wrong. cause it works here.
win98 rules! well as long as you only got 1 cpu :-)

RE: Win98 problem with 1GB memory

windowszvista — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 16:11:27 GMT

Upgarde to Xp, the Vista Beta, or just wait until the final Vista comes out, or you could multiboot as Microsoft explains on its website.
Go to www.microsoft.com and search for "multiboot".

RE: Win98 problem with 1GB memory

exTI — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:00:56 GMT

Just pull the 1gb mem stick out.

RE: Win98 problem with 1GB memory

jackle — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:45:24 GMT

i tried booting up win98 with the 2 lines insystem.ini

MaxFileCache=524288
MaxPhysPage=<512>

but it didnt work. Any ideas how to do it?

thanks

RE: Win98 problem with 1GB memory

Berton — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:48:14 GMT

The best tweak is to remove all but 512MB of memory from the computer. Next would be to upgrade to Win2000 Pro or WinXP.

There is a known issue with more that 512MB memory and Win9x/ME regardless of what the motherboard supports.

[url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q253912[/url]
I've seen computers get slower using the suggestions. Limiting the amount of memory Windows uses kinda makes more that 512MB useless.

Win98 problem with 1GB memory

jackle — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:18:33 GMT

hi all

problem: i cannot start Win98, it shows error message "Qiut one or more memory resident programs or remove unnecessary utilities from your config.sys and autoexec.bat, and restart the computer"

It works fine with 500Mb RAM but when i installed additional 1 GB stick the problem shows, i removed the 1 Gb stick and 98 works fine....do anyone know any tweaks to work around this problem?

thanks