98SE probs with >512mb RAM? or just a 4x64 RAM config prob?

[ragejg]

1. My friend Cass has old'ish KT133a chipset mobo (KTAPRO?) with a duron 1k and (2) 128 sticks of pc133... ran great, never OC'ed it, stayed stable even with 98SE... He threw me some cash and asked me to get him some RAM.

2. ragejg goes to DVCentury and purchases a 512 stick (4x64 config) for a great price... kt133/kt133a listed in compatibility chart...

3. After manual reading, we installed it, wary that this is a new style of RAM (sorta)...

4. Corrupt this, corrupt that, reinstall OS pleeze, BF1942 dies, HD decides to become very corrupt. This was after the first day...

5. While waiting for the ram, one friend mentioned hastily "win98 does not like more than 512mb RAM, and HATES single 512 chips"... I was like "sure man, whatever"... Well, now I feel bad. I think I'm gonna give Cass (2) 128 sticks of regular hyundai PC133 from my other friend's KM133a (XP-era) Duron system for the 512 stick, which I presume will run better on a newer generation of mobo.

... So... I'm still wondering about the 512mb situation. Does Win98 dislike this amount of RAM, or just the configuration? Or is it just a kt133/kt133a situation?

... xp pro will be installed on all these systems within the next couple months, but I wanna wipe up all the win98 issues I can while it's still on our systems.

not only that, but I'll be kicking up to 512mb of pc2100 soon, myself, and am worried about probs like this cuz I still run 98SE too.

...I remember saturnotaku mentioning something about this a couple weeks ago...


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[The Baron]

If you have OVER 512 megs, Windows just plain won't run--I haven't heard of any problems with it running straight 512 megs (I did for a while on this box before I installed XP, actually).

Sounds to me like a problem with the ram... switch 'er out.

[ragejg]

Yah, it ran fine in the KT133a by itself, but this was after it was already corrupted by the 768 configuration... so the damage had already been done...

AND it ran on a 1.2 tbird system just fine on WinXP for a nite with no corruption. I don't think this is a bad stick o ram. I tend to believe that his KTAPRO (i cant find a thing on this board except from luckystar, which has no bios updates) chipset at the rev of bios that's on it, does not support 4x64 configuaration or single 512 modules, even though the manual makes mention of it... More on this later.
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[ALobpreis]

There's a solution!!!!

If you have more then 512 Mb, then add "MaxFileCache=524288" to your [vcache] section inside system.ini.

If you have more than 1 Gb, then there are other things to do, because you are not able to even install the soft. I'll post them later.

[VeritechK7]

does 98 even use that amount of memory efficiently ... my hunch says ..no..but i'm not afraid of being proven wrong ;)

[StealthHawk]

Originally posted by VeritechK7
does 98 even use that amount of memory efficiently ... my hunch says ..no..but i'm not afraid of being proven wrong ;)

no, and unless you use RAM intensive tasks, i'm pretty sure it runs slower with that much memory.

[ragejg]

Thanks you guys for the help/advice on this... We contemplated the .ini change, but the XP Pro disc just sat there yelling "install me instead!"... So we broke down and did it... We may dual boot with 98 so all the advice/info probbly will get put to use...

:)

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[marqmajere]

Well, at least there is no reg changes/additions in Windows XP to run over 768 megs of ram so you shouldn't have to worry about that.

Marqus