pmistry
I just reinstalled a dual boot with Win2k and Win98, getting rid of a buggy WinME in the process. However, I noticed that when I boot Win98 and go to device manager, it says I have only 511.0 MB RAM? I know I have 512 and WinME used to show this and Win2k shows my memory to be 512 but it is listed in KB. My motherboard says I have 512 too, when the system starts it counts to 524 288 KB. Is this just a Win98 thingy that it won't count up to 512 since it can't use more memory than that? I checked to see if some sort of TSR is loaded at startup but there isn't and I also removed every DIMM and plugged each one in separately and they all said either 128 or 256 or 384 correctly, only with 512 i get 511. I even rearranged my DIMMs around and all combinations of 512 give 511 in Win98. My DIMMs are like this
- Have 3 DIMMS slots all are filled
1 - 128 MB PC133
2 - 128 MB PC133
3- 256 MB PC133
- Have 3 DIMMS slots all are filled
1 - 128 MB PC133
2 - 128 MB PC133
3- 256 MB PC133
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Andrew275
So what if it says 511 instead of 512? Is it really that big of a difference?
pmistry
OP
Not really, but it does bug me, anybody else have Win98 and have 512 megs of RAM?
ValkyerieK7
Well...do you know about your video architecture? is it shared?
SHS
Don't worry about pmistry Win98 thur WinME have as memory limits
Beside you should have this way
1 - 256 MB PC133
2 - 128 MB PC133
3- 128 MB PC133
Beside you should have this way
1 - 256 MB PC133
2 - 128 MB PC133
3- 128 MB PC133
pmistry
OP
Thanks for the tip SHS, I'll move my larger DIMM to the first slot.
pmistry
OP
I don't have shared video memory, I just have a GeForce 2 MX with 32 MB and an SB Live Value all working on an Asus K7V with BIOS 1007.
bobbinbrisco
i read that if u r running win98 and u already have 128Mb RAM then having any more than that will not make ANY difference- but it would really benefit win2k
Gemfire James
check your bios for that 14-15 MB Memory Hole thing (I think that's what it's called), if it's on, turn it off, disabled it.
pmistry
OP
good suggestion
Gemfire James
question is, did that work? haha
pmistry
OP
It doesn't matter anymore simply put Win98 won't recognize the 1 meg, probably due to a VIA chipset issue or the OS itself. If I use WinME it reads 512, if I use Win95B it is still saying 511. Microsoft's 9x OSes are almost eliminated, XP all the way!
