Hi all, this might sound strange but dureing under installation of windows 98 etc, evreything went fine with the 1 gigabyte and after finishing like installing software driver's for the card and programs like flash, java, that kind of software, after the reboot it decided to then again do that memory resistant error problem and this is a fresh install of windows 98.
Many programs don't work correctly with 1GB under Windows 98. The max you should use is 512.
the problem is are i only got 1gb stick's.
http://www.motherboards.org/images/reviews/mo … s/1215_p2_1.jpg its that kind of motherboard im running windows 98 from.
should be new enough for it, yes?
wrote:should be new enough for it, yes?
The motherboard doesn't matter, Windows 98 has issues with >512MB of RAM period.
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well, then im in trouble, i got no 512 ram.
There are many threads about this subject already. With 1 GB of RAM, your first option is to use HIMEMX.SYS, which is a free replacement for HIMEM.SYS that has a /MAX switch you can use to specify an amount of RAM less than 512 MB. Alternatively, you can set up a 512 MB RAM disk using XMSDISK, leaving 512 MB for Windows.
There are also edits you can make to SYSTEM.INI, but with 1 GB of RAM they will generally not solve all your problems.
MIght then look for a 512 memory stick.
I remember there being a patch someone made that allows Windows 98 to work with 1GB or more. It was sold by the author online a long time ago. It's possible that it's still floating around.
wrote:I remember there being a patch someone made that allows Windows 98 to work with 1GB or more. It was sold by the author online a long time ago. It's possible that it's still floating around.
The famous Rloew ram patch
http://rloew.x10host.com/catalog.htm
I don't have it, a few people here do and say it does the job fine, just depends if you really need/want that much RAM in 98 is worth the price.
Even still I would get a cheap stick of ram, Even 64MB would be more then enough for simply installing windows
wrote:MIght then look for a 512 memory stick.
Perhaps I was unclear. The SYSTEM.INI edits might only help a little, but HIMEMX or XMSDISK will both solve the problem very effectively and are easy to implement.
But i can only go to the dos prompt, i would need the windows gui open, right?
Not at all! You only need to copy the relevant files to your hard drive somewhere, and edit your CONFIG.SYS. You can even do it from a boot disk if you need to. (Yes, Windows 9x still processes the CONFIG.SYS before Windows really starts booting.)
As I said, this is not a new problem and people have been doing this sort of thing for years now. (The only real catch is that Windows still will not start in Safe Mode, since Safe Mode does bypass CONFIG.SYS. But if for some reason you expect to be booting in Safe Mode frequently, you can still fix that problem by editing IO.SYS.)
Old hardware, old OS and its configuration, this should be in Marvin.
wrote:Old hardware, old OS and its configuration, this should be in Marvin.
i werent sure where to put it, cant it be moved to marvin then?
Moved to Marvin.
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Windows 98SE works fine with 1GB of RAM without any tweaks...but only for me, looks like it's a seperate case for each configuration.
In any case, MaxPhysPage=20000 + HIMEMX should solve all issues.
I don't think you even need any parameters on HIMEMX. Just load it in config.sys and add MaxPhysPage=20000 to system.ini. You should probably also set maxfilecache=65536 or so or vcache can be another problem.
When installing with more than 1GB, load HIMEMX and also create a system.ini in C:\Windows with maxphyspage=20000 and maxfilecache=65536 and it will also fix the setup program.
but where can i get that himemx program? the original place is not existing, also, its useing agp, but that doesnt matter?
Download HimemX here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/hime … 3.34/himemx.zip
