izaaco
Mon Mar 24 02:30:03 PDT 2008
Hi Brian,
Thanx for your prompt reply. I tried the system.ini portion but failed. Let
me go and give VPC a go.
Thank you!!
"Brian A." wrote:
> "izaaco" <izaaco@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4A9E311D-B003-4A05-A5E6-3AE1A522D001@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to use some software that an only operate on Win98. Thus I did a dual
> > boot on my computer. One problem I encountered is that Win98 does not
> > recognise any RAM more than 768MB and returned an error. I followed the steps
> > in the following article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184447 but it does
> > not seems to help at all.
> >
> > I'm running 2GB of RAM and I dpn't wish to keep taking my RAM in and out of
> > my computer each time I sitch between WinXP and Win98. I hope someone can
> > advise me on this. Maybe let me know what I've done wrong.
> >
> > PS : My system.ini file was empty when I first opened it. So I added the
> > following to it :
> >
> > [386Enh]
> > MaxPhysPage=30000
> >
> > It worked once but faled to succeeed after I reboot it. Help is very much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > iz
>
> If the system has 700MB's of RAM or more installed following line MUST be
> added to the [vcache] section of windows\system.ini file but never more.
> MaxFileCache=512000
>
> If you go over 1GB of RAM and still receive errors add the following line
> to the [386enh] section of the System.ini file: MaxPhysPage=40000
> This limits the amount of physical RAM that Windows can access
> to 1GB. If the errors go away with this setting remove the memory over
> 1GB as it will not be used with this setting.
>
> If that brings no joy you could install VPC2007 (free), then install Win98 in
> it.
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
>
>
>
>
> --
> Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }
> Conflicts start where information lacks.
>
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>
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