Win98 and probs with >=512mb ram

[jmichna]

I recall reading "somewhere" about system and access violation erros that occur when Win98 systems have too much ram (512 and greater). I also recall there was a fix for this situation (one which did not require removing some ram). Does anybody recall the solution? Please email if you have it. Thanks a bunch.
John

[Brangwen]

Good luck with this link. Perhaps I'm just a bit slow, but I left well enough alone and run with no more than 512 meg of SDRAM in Win98se:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q253/9/12.ASP

Brangwen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[rlpos]

I just added 512meg to a win95 unit. IT shows a total of 528meg and have no problems. Thinking about putting another 256meg in just to see what happens

[RamonGTP]

Is this RAM limitation limited to win 9x series or does it also include Win2k?

-Ramon

[DemonKnight]

just the win9x series. 2k can handle up to 4gigs of ram

[gwinters]

I think the fix has something to do with setting up your [vcache] settings in the 'system.ini' file. You have to set it manually because Win9x doesn't allocate the cache properly at or above 512M. I haven't seen any problems without the fix.

And now that I've read the above link I've just realized that I posted this for no reason. My bad.

[This message has been edited by gwinters (edited 07-26-2001).]

[unfguy]

I know RAM is dirt cheap now but what are you running on 98 that would benefit from that much memory?

[Mykex]

Running 768mbs of RAM in my 98se system. Just open msconfig/system.ini scroll down to [vcache] click the plus and add MinFileCache=xxx00* and anouther line for
MaxFileCache=xxxx00*

(*)xxx= amount of phsical RAM
xxxx= ram plus swapfile amount
I guess a random number could work in the second line as long as you dont execede that amount but I set my minimum and max swapfile settings. My swapfile being at 768mb min/max swap plus 768mb ram my lines look like this.
[vcache]
MinFileCache=76800
MaxFileCache=153600

[Tekkitan]

win2k advanced server (i think) can hold up to 32GB memory, it was either that or Win2k DataServer