gameman

Sorry for my delayed response. I did finally manage to get into Win98. The settings that worked are MaxPhysPage=40000 and MaxFileCache=64000. The strange thing is I had tried REM MaxFileCache=65535 and that hadn't worked. Also the first time I tried these settings it didn't, then I ran a step by step confirmation and it booted! And I know I had all of the options checked (config, autoexc, etc) in msconfig for boot. Also it boots fine every time now. The only problem I am having is occasionally getting a out of memory error. For example Winclam has this problem when trying to do a update or scan. I haven't tried ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 yet though. soporific, I am well aware that there is not any point to having 1.5 gig on a windows 98 machine. I upgraded the memory for windows 2000 applications NOT for windows 98. As I said before this is a dual boot machine and while windows 2000 worked fine, I was having difficulty getting windows 98 to work. And while it is working I can see that I still need to tweek a bit more due to the occasional low memory errors in certain applications.

Well I thought that with the MaxFileCache and Max PhysPage settings it limits the ammount of ram the windows sees and gets around the bug. And I know of people this has worked for, but the method is failing here.

Hi all, I have a dual booting system with windows 2000 and windows 98SE. My problem is I recently upgraded the memory to 1.5gig from 512mb. And of course the old "insusficent memory to activate windows" bug bit. I thought no problem as I would just adjust the MaxPhysPage and MaxFileCache settings. However nothing seems to help. Windows 2000 runs fine so I know the memory is not the issue. I have tried: MaxFileCache=65535 MaxFileCache=262144 MaxFileCache=524288 MaxFileCache=65536 MaxFileCache=32768 MaxPhysPage=20000 MaxPhysPage=48000 MaxPhysPage=40000 All to no avail. This is really quite flustrating as everything I have read these settings should bypass this bug. Any help is apprecated.