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First post, by Vipersan

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I realise this is neither useful or indeed practical to windows 98se ..
and I actually dont want more than 512mb ..when booting 98se
BUT
I intend to make my system dual O/S with 98se and XP ..which will benefit from having more ram.
it would be a pain if every time I wanted to use XP I had to pull ram.
So the object of this excercise is to physically max out my ram slots to 1.5gb but restrict 98se access to the ram to 512mb which I believe is the upper practical limit ..but leave 1.5gb available when I install the HD sled/caddy holding XP.
So ..what do I need to be aware of doing this ..? ..and will the system be stable.
Can someone please advise me.
As far as I know this is practical ..but are there unforseeable issues I might encounter ?
Is just adding this line MaxPhysPage=40000 to win 98se system .ini sufficient ?
rgds
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Reply 1 of 1, by Tiido

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You will need to add MaxPhysPage=20000 (512MB) to SYSTEM.INI to make sure install works without failures. The best idea is just to remove the excess RAM. Limiting to 1GB usually results in some mysterious errors on my machines.

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