Out of memory issues on boot

[kartel]

[386Enh]

ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

MaxFileCache=524288

dont use mincache

theres something here too.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;EN-US;Q304943

[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.

Edited November 15, 2007 by gameman

[dencorso]

If you are, perchance, loading EMM386.EXE, remove it, windows does not need it. And I think you should also remove ACPI and APM altogether from Win 98SE, as I said above. I have 1.5GB of memory in my machine and manage to use conditions much less stringent than those you found to work. After I removed ACPI and APM, my system became stable enough to run for more than 4 days without reboot. And all my periodic "Windows Protection Errors disappeared"!!! See my post above and the links on it.