This may need to be considered - you don't state P4 cpu speed :-)

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;312108

regards, Richard


"Pandora" wrote in message
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"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
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Windows 98 and 98SE don't have Autoexec.bat of Config.sys files by =
default, but there's no reason you can't add them. On the other hand, =
you are right in thinking that the "usual" things that these files were =
used for in prior versions of MS-DOS and Windows are handled in other =
ways by Win98/98SE. In other words, these two venerable files are =
perfectly acceptable in Windows 98/98SE, but you have to be sure you're =
employing them appropriately.

Which is all rather beside the point: If you read the responses to your =
case in this newsgroup, all suggestions for how to remedy your issue =
involve editing System.ini. Safest way to do that is to use SYSEDIT, =
launched from the Run box, but Notepad will also suffice (however, don't
=
use WordPad or any more complicated text editor, since they may throw in
=
formatting characters and destroy the file.)

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I am trying to load Windows 98SE on to a PC with 2GB ram. (It is a new
PC with a Pentium 4 motherboard.)

On a reboot near the end of the installation process, I get the
following message:

"Insufficient memory to initialize Windows.

Quit one or more memory-resident programs or remove unnecessary
utilities from your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, and restart
your computer."

Having read the Microsoft Knowledgebase on this matter, I have entered
the following lines into C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI:

In the [386Enh] section -
MaxPhysPage=30000

In the [vcache] section -
MaxFileCache=275000

Despite adding these lines, I cannot get past the above error message.
Any suggestions on how to get 98SE to install on this machine?

Note that my config.sys file does not contain any reference to
himem.sys or emm386.exe