gameman Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 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=65535MaxFileCache=262144MaxFileCache=524288MaxFileCache=65536MaxFileCache=32768MaxPhysPage=20000MaxPhysPage=48000MaxPhysPage=40000All to no avail. This is really quite flustrating as everything I have read these settings should bypass this bug. Any help is apprecated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerb255 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Can Windows 98 even run 1.5 GB of RAM? It can barely even run over 512 MB of RAM without a reg hack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gameman Posted November 1, 2007 Author Share Posted November 1, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscardog Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 (edited) 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. Try http://members.aol.com/rloew1 demo ram limitation patch or http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=105373 xenos vcache fix to see via a process of elimination if your system is capable of using larger ram sizes under win 9x. Highest amount of ram of a system running win9x to date is in excess of 3.6 gig Edited November 1, 2007 by oscardog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 (edited) Please read the thread VCACHE fix attempt, at least from post #7 to post #38, and do follow the links therein. If that doen't solve your problem, do also remove ACPI and APM altogether from Win 98SE, here's how. But since yours is a double boot machine, you should let APIC and ACPI activated in BIOS (that is, skip item 1 in my procedure), for the benefit of Win 2k, unless you decide to remove them also from Win 2k, which I think is unnecessary... Good luck and keep me posted. HTH Edited November 1, 2007 by dencorso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galahs Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Did you put the settings under the correct headings in system.iniTry the following[vcache]MaxFileCache=64000[386Enh]MaxPhysPage=40000if that works try increasing the MaxFileCache. Personally I like a setting of 261120 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJARRRPCGP Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 (edited) There is a bug that the swap file being bigger than 768 MB causes that error! Retarded, if you ask me! Even with less RAM, (at 512 MB) when I setted the swap file to bigger than 768 MB, I gotten that error message or similar and thus was forced to go to safe mode and make the swap file smaller! Edited November 2, 2007 by RJARRRPCGP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soporific Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 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=65535MaxFileCache=262144MaxFileCache=524288MaxFileCache=65536MaxFileCache=32768MaxPhysPage=20000MaxPhysPage=48000MaxPhysPage=400001) unless you are going to use the left over RAM for a RAM disk, there is NO point having 1.5 gigs in a Windows 98 machine. Win98 was NOT designed to be able to USE more than 1 gig. I would take out the 512 MB stick and just leave the 1 gig stick in there.2) even with 1 gig, you can still run into problems if you have a large graphics aperture being set in BIOS. Windows will load but you won't be able to start any additional Virtual Machines (ie DOS boxes) until you adjust MaxPhysPage and set it to "39A00" --- (MaxPhysPage=40000 can still cause problems).3) dencorso is right, follow his suggestions as well and the links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjecina Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 I am interested to listen what is point in having swap file on Windows 98 SE with 1 GB or more RAM ?I am having Core 2 Duo with 1 GB ram and 256 MB Radeon 9600Everything is working superb without swap file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJARRRPCGP Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 (edited) I am interested to listen what is point in having swap file on Windows 98 SE with 1 GB or more RAM ?I am having Core 2 Duo with 1 GB ram and 256 MB Radeon 9600Everything is working superb without swap fileThis is because even when you have more than enough RAM, some applications (not Windows) give a not enough memory error! Project64 1.5 is known to give "FAILED TO ALLOCATE MEMORY" without a swapfile. Edited November 7, 2007 by RJARRRPCGP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galahs Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I am interested to listen what is point in having swap file on Windows 98 SE with 1 GB or more RAM ?I am having Core 2 Duo with 1 GB ram and 256 MB Radeon 9600Everything is working superb without swap fileYou have a Core 2 Duo running Windows 98!!!!!HOW!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjecina Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Maybe stupid question but what is Project64 1.5 ??I am having original Windows 98 SE without any updates ....About Core 2 Duo I have wanted to say that my Core 2 Duo E 4300 is not having problems with Windows 98 SE. Because of writings on this site I think that Windows 98 SE is using only one of two E 4300 cores but for me this is not important. Important is that everything work OK. On PC I am having Windows 98 SE and Windows XP so XP is using both cores when I work or play with modern software.My MBO is ASRock 775i65G . About other MBO which are working with 2 cores and Windows 98 SE you need to read http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=97588 where I have made list of all modern MBO which are working with Win 98 SE and 2 core processors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galahs Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Did you have to turn off a core in the bios, or Win98 just ignored it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjecina Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Did you have to turn off a core in the bios, or Win98 just ignored it?Windows 98 is ignoring second core Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galahs Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Sweet, so no action was required by the user! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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