I have a problem running the Win98SE OS when I have both SDRAM slots filled on my motherboard. The manufacturer of the board says that it can take a maximum of 1024 MB or 1GB of RAM, which it does but Win98SE does not like it at all (Win2000 Professional handles it with no problems). I can boot in Win98SE safe mode just fine but when I try to boot normally to Win98SE it hangs on the cyan desktop screen after I login. When I remove half the memory the problem goes away. Is there anyway I can get Win98SE to accept the full 1GB of RAM? Do I need to make adjustments to the Virtual Memory or relocate pagefile.sys to it's own space? I would appreciate help from anyone who is familiar with this problem and has a solution.

Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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There's some screens shots from an extinct webpage of the method someone used to fix that problem. You can download them here. You can still use drivers and all for user and password at driverguide or you can create your own account.

Try this in system.ini: [vcache] MinFileCache=262144 MaxFileCache=262144 ChunkSize=512 The ole rule is 1/4 of ram. Best

That would be the old Windows "95" rule, which was instituted as a result of 95 being slow to release the vcache, when memory became constrained. In Win98/Me there is NO reason to limit the file cache, unless you have more than 512MBs installed. BTW the parameters you have are NOT even good for Win95. What they are doing is setting up a FIXED file cache of 256MBs. Meaning nothing else can use this ram. It is dedicated to the file cache. The "tweak" is to place a MaxFileCache only.