Usher Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Some time ago Tihiy hacked Win3x SVGA drivers for Win9x safe mode use (see thread). The main job with Win9x was to add settings to SYSTEM.CB file used in safe mode instead of normal SYSTEM.INI. Anyone want to hack SYSTEM.CB to use with > 1GiB RAM? Just merge with your SYSTEM.CB settings quoted below:[386Enh]EMMExclude=C000-CFFFMaxPhysPage=20000[vcache]MinFileCache=2048MaxFileCache=65536Some settings added to SYSTEM.CB seem to be ignored and I have no Win9x computer working with > 1 GiB RAM, so I don't know if the change will work. You must try the hack by yourself - reboot your system to safe mode and see if it works. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usher Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 MaxPhysPage setting works for sure. Just tested limiting 512 MiB to 256 MiB in safe mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usher Posted April 9, 2010 Author Share Posted April 9, 2010 The hack should be tested without patches for safe mode:- without vcache.vxd patched by Xeno86;- without HIMEMX.EXE and IO.SYS patched by xrayer.If it works, you can test other values for MaxPhysPage and MaxFileCache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 The method you propose is interesting and ought to be thoroughly tested.It has the attractive of being much simpler than the solutions in use nowadays.Here is a reference I think might be of interest for those intending to use it Understanding Safe Mode.I have now added this thread to the list of relevant threads in the 1st post of the Win 9x/ME with > 1 GiB thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offler Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 I use safe mode with more that 1GiB only with normally booted autoexec.bat and config.sys, while the dos ramdisk driver is active and consuming unusable memory. No need to hack, althought it does not solve the main problem.Another way i to use patch which is hanging there for some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 IT WORKS!!!!used the usher's method, or dencorso's guidelines till step 6I can now enter safe mode with 2GB installed and the system is very stable, I burned a few cds, flashed the firmware of my SCSI burner, no memory problem whatsoeverThis is just to add a cross-reference to the thread where Usher's method was shown to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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