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Running WIN98SE with 4GB DDR and RAID
If only one 1GB chip of physical RAM is installed,
WIN98SE boots up without any problems. If I add a further 3GB of RAM chips (paired), then WIN98SE complains that there is insufficient memory. Trying to resolve this by specifying MaxPhysPage=30000 - or any other value - in system.ini does not help: WIN98SE boots up, but the applications (e.g. Norton Antivirus) then say there is insufficient memory. Is there a fix for this, or can WIN98SE not run on motherboards with 'striped' RAM chips? Secondly, I'm hitting problems with chip-controlled RAID drives under WIN98SE - even with all the RAID drivers installed. Is there any way of forcing WIN98SE to check the BIOS, instead of bypassing it and trying to access the hard drives directly? Thanks for any advice on how to reconfigure WIN98SE so it can work with the latest hardware. |
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Paul,
4GB of memory is far too much for Win98SE but see the following to see if any help. http://support.microsoft.com/default...47&Product=w98 http://support.microsoft.com/default...43&Product=w98 http://support.microsoft.com/default...12&Product=w98 Zippy "Paul Leon" wrote in message ... If only one 1GB chip of physical RAM is installed, WIN98SE boots up without any problems. If I add a further 3GB of RAM chips (paired), then WIN98SE complains that there is insufficient memory. Trying to resolve this by specifying MaxPhysPage=30000 - or any other value - in system.ini does not help: WIN98SE boots up, but the applications (e.g. Norton Antivirus) then say there is insufficient memory. Is there a fix for this, or can WIN98SE not run on motherboards with 'striped' RAM chips? Secondly, I'm hitting problems with chip-controlled RAID drives under WIN98SE - even with all the RAID drivers installed. Is there any way of forcing WIN98SE to check the BIOS, instead of bypassing it and trying to access the hard drives directly? Thanks for any advice on how to reconfigure WIN98SE so it can work with the latest hardware. |
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Zippy,
Thanks for pointing me towards MaxFileCache etc. (article #253912). I did not know about these system.ini parms. I'll try out these cache parms next weekend (too busy during the week). I do realize that 4GB is too much for Win98SE. But I'm multi-booting - including Windows XP, which has no problems with 4GB of dual channel RAM installed - so I need to get Win98SE to work with that. Thanks again for your help. Paul -----Original Message----- Paul, 4GB of memory is far too much for Win98SE but see the following to see if any help. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;184447&Product=w98 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;304943&Product=w98 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;253912&Product=w98 Zippy "Paul Leon" wrote in message ... If only one 1GB chip of physical RAM is installed, WIN98SE boots up without any problems. If I add a further 3GB of RAM chips (paired), then WIN98SE complains that there is insufficient memory. Trying to resolve this by specifying MaxPhysPage=30000 - or any other value - in system.ini does not help: WIN98SE boots up, but the applications (e.g. Norton Antivirus) then say there is insufficient memory. Is there a fix for this, or can WIN98SE not run on motherboards with 'striped' RAM chips? Secondly, I'm hitting problems with chip-controlled RAID drives under WIN98SE - even with all the RAID drivers installed. Is there any way of forcing WIN98SE to check the BIOS, instead of bypassing it and trying to access the hard drives directly? Thanks for any advice on how to reconfigure WIN98SE so it can work with the latest hardware. . |
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