"Mike M" wrote:

Thanks for that info Ron.

I well understand that users are now running machines with much larger
amounts of RAM than before - just think what 1.25GB might have cost even
five years ago. I seem to recall I began testing Win Me with probably
just 128MB of RAM although I know the PC I was using had 384MB by the end
of that beta.

What seems to vary though from system to system is the figure at which the
use of MaxPhysPage is required. I was under the impression that this
kicked in around the 1.5GB mark (as you mentioned) however there have been
a number of recent posts including this one where limiting to usable
memory to 1GB is required to fix problems. Perhaps in future it would be
best to advise the use of MaxPhysPage=40000 whenever installed memory
exceeds 1GB.

Cheers,

The problems with memory over 1 gb seem to be hardware related in some
way, but nobody has identified the exact cause. There are instances
where certain computers will not run with anything more than 1 gb of
RAM unless the MaxPhysPage is set to limit usage to 1 gb; and other
computers that run quite happily with up to 1.5 gb.

And with the end of Microsoft's active support for Windows Me I doubt
if anyone will take the time to seriously research the problem so as
to identify the precise cause.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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