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A very important sidenote: USE a boot manager/partition manager: NEVER, NEVER use the crap fdisk that ships with Windows as it will mess your partitions. Besides you have the limitation of creating only 4 primaries on your HDD. As for Windows 7+ I quote Wikipedia: Even worse other OS's installations may even completely 'remove' your partitions without warning. Then you will have to resort to an undelete process that will take many, many hours. With a boot/partition manager you have more chances to recover them. Above is a commercial product, but there are freeware solutions too. I chose this as an example because it is easy to use-simple GUI, resides on its own partition and supports more than 4 primaries. IMO it is preferable to use a partition manager that resides on its own partition as Windows installations delete the MBR and you wont be able to boot on your other OSs. Here, after the installation asks to reboot, you simply insert the installation CD of the boot manager and reactivate instantly the boot manager, instead of starting from scratch after every OS installation.

inf's don't do anything. Even older versions.

Bad luck! Memory problems came back. I went the way down till 32MB. The strange thing is that at some settings under 768 it works whereas if you lower it it doesn't. And then you go more down and it works and then more and it doesn't... This doesn't make sense. There must be something else there besides the MaxPhysPage barrier. So I will keep it 32MB and another 64 for swap and see what happens. Also SB (CT4750) 'worked' even though installations crashed (first due to insuf. memory) then due to lack of internet-I suppose it affected only update. '' > because DOS mode legacy device doesn't: aka you cannot configure it because resources conflict with PCI bridge resources-here is the missing mobo drivers for W95 we were talking before-another time I will try with those infs and see if I can do something.

Thanks for info. Seems that I will not get any benefit from installing those inf's (only ethernet I will miss). Mouse I can use another one, audio I am using an old SoundBlaster card. - Problem solved: The Virtual Memory (swap) was responsible. I suppose it added to 768MB and gave the insufficient memory errors. I disabled it and everything seems to work fine. But 2 questions remain: Why did I manage to load W95 and get the errors inside the GUI instead of crashing while loading, like when I first booted after installation? Why after exiting to DOS mode and restarting W95 problem seems to disappear? (Is some memory lost somewhere and thus I go under the 768MB barrier?) - card: GeForce 5900. I used 77.72 with the known error messages on startup and nVidia panel not working.

More crazy stuff: F8 > command prompt: 2MB memory and in Windows cannot open anything dos related (unlike I mentioned before: edit, etc) from Run. But when I exit by Alt-F4 > MS-DOS mode (again gives 2MB) and 'exit' back to Windows insufficient memory errors disappear! Don't have time to disable/change size of swap and see what happens. - Hmm, got too off topic here. Maybe a MOD please split this? I hope I provided helpful info. - GART? With 128MB card and to use 512MB (BIOS) does this mean it would eat these 512 from the 768 that 95 sees or from the rest memory? If it is the latter would it cause issues with 95 as in total I would exceed 1GB? My time is over. I will log in after ~ 21-23 hrs again.

Thanks for quick reply! Hmm, I did yet another fresh install of 95C without installing your patch. 1. Of course monitor USB hub is connected to PC. I am not stupid enough to believe that monitor driver will suffice! LOL! 2. I cannot remove the USB extension card, because I use this PC (I am posting from it now)! I have 2GB memory and didn't use rloew's patch. I just wrote: MaxPhysPage=30000 (=768MB), which is displayed correctly in 95C. Now it gets more funny: Even without your patch I received an insufficient memory error when trying to run DOS prompt from Start menu, or a couple of DOS programs from Run. But I can Run edit, chkdsk, etc. Also typing 'command' in Run gives me the DOS prompt without issues. A 'mem' gives: total/used/free: 66MB, ?, 768MB. Yes I saw the inf's, but if they don't work, as you stated, no need to bother about them. Missing LAN is bad though:no shared folders, no internet. Anyway, no big problem. I installed 95C for fun and to run old stuff (read mainly games) without opening some other vintage PCs I have installed it to (to avoid con/discon cables for CRT, keyboard, speakers, ...). Let me see if how much memory is displayed now when I go through F8 directly to command. Something goes wrong there.

Hi! I tried this to this Mobo: http://eu.msi.com/support/mb/K8N_Neo_Platinum.html Note it states there: NVIDIA nForce 3/4 Series board DO NOT support Windows® 98/ME (Now how the Mobo driver is there available to download-even for 95-I do not understand. Anyway the driver fails to install stating that I do not have 98/ME.) Now back to USB: USB hub on Monitor with mouse attached doesn't work. If mouse attached on Mobo USB doesn't work either. In Devices I have 4 or 5 ? regarding USB and PCI (hmm I have a board with 4 USBs extensions on a PCI slot). Now you mention that I have to delete these to install. But when I delete them the keyboard doesn't function (PS/2)! So no way to delete them. So i proceed with install. After restart system reverts to 16colors 640x480 from 32bit mentioning that display driver is incorrect (version is 77.72). I ignore this and go to remove your USB drivers. But system protests that there is insufficient memory to do so. Actually sometimes even Control Panel doesn't load due to this. You cannot run anything-even DOS or notepad. I downgraded to 8bit color, 640x480 and restarted hoping I would get some more memory (maybe irrelevant). Finally, I succeeded to uninstall your USB package and restarting, display went back to normal. I would recommend to mention this issue and provide for a command prompt way to uninstall your USB driver pack. BTW: Ever heard of any custom/unofficial nForce driver for 95? Thanks.