WIN98SE with more than 512mb ram

[rcmania67]

Can we use Win98Se with more than 512mb of ram? If yes, how can we achieve this?

Thanks

[Midknyte]

Read this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q253912

You can get around the 512mb limit, but it's not really worth it to run that much ram in win98. it doesn't make that much of a performance difference, if any. try benchmarking it and see. you would be better off upgrading to win2k or xp if you have more than 512mb of ram.

[crossedup]

i ran 98se with 512 and then 1024 for about 2 weeks. will crash more often and windows really wont use anything above 256 in my experience. anything over that and resources available never go up. i tried the fix in msconfig and it darn near killed my machine, had to reboot in safe mode and undo it. before that windows kept saying i had -70 gb free on hd that really had 72 gb ( +) free.

[Johnny Fist]

If you're using more than 256Mb of ram then you really should use XP.

Or at least 2000.

[rcmania67]

which one is better - 2000 or xp?

[Midknyte]

xp has more overhead, but it has everything 2k has and more. if you strip down all the bells and whistles, xp is pretty close to 2k.

[Randy]

Try some of these settings.


http://tweakhomepc.virtualave.net/ram/vcache98.html

[Bigjakkstaffa]

which one is better - 2000 or xp?

2000, but if you just wanna plug straight in and get on with it, XP is for you

--Jakk:t

[Logan2002]

Yeah win xp is more user friendly.
Setting up a broadband connection is very easy.
But in 2k............lets just I quickly went back to xp.