Windows 95 RAM Limitation

[Shademan]

Howdy guys, got a question for the few of you who are more tech-savvy than me. :-) I'm running Win95 on my PC which currently has a Celeron 333a and 176 megs of RAM. I've heard tell that 95a can only functionally support 64 megs. I don't really want to go to 98, but I will if there's no service pack or something that will allow me to use all my available RAM. Any help will be appreciated.

Levy

[BFlurie]

Any memory limitation would be from your mobo/chipset, not W95 -- it can address up to 2 GIGS RAM. Look @ this site & the right-most column for WB (write-back) limits.
http://users.erols.com/chare/chipsets.htm

[jl123]

Well if your computer has 176 mb of ram right now and is working properly then i guess there would be not problem running win95 on that system considering the limit is 2gb.

Hope this is what you are asking.

~Joel(jl123)

[CMonster]

Good link BFlurie!

jl123 - a quote from the link you graciously provided (BTW -that's a good link too): Although Windows 95 has the ability to address up to four GB of virtual memory, it can access and use only two GB or less of physical RAM.

Yes, Windows 9x can support a theoretical maximum of 4GB of memory. It may poorly manage large amounts of memory but can support probabaly as much as any typical PC motherboard can hold.

Windows 95B,C, and Win98 can support drives up to 2TB (terabytes) in size (supposedly) - could you imagine how long it would take to defrag a 2TB drive?

There is a notorious limitation with the Intel 430TX chipset which can only cache up to 64MB of ram; perhaps this is the source of the 64MB-myth about Windows 95. Memory greater than 64MB can be used on Intel 430TX boards but access time will be slower.



[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 07-03-2000).]

[jl123]

Just imagine how long it would take to fill up a 2 terabyte hd. That's 2048gb!! But with software coming out on DVD format a program in the future could be 5.2 gb. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif New size, new software to fill it up with. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

~Joel(jl123)

[jl123]

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q181/5/94.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0

I'm not sure if that's right or what.
I'm sorry if i'm wrong. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

~Joel(jl123)

[Shademan]

Thanks CMonster I do believe that may be what I was thinking about.

Levy