Personal computing discussed
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On 2002-03-03 15:47, newhoser wrote:
Can someone help me? I am running windows 98se. I have 724meg RAM installed, and the OS doesn't recognize any more than 511 meg RAM. Is there a fix for this, or am I doomed to suffer until I get XP? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx
On 2002-03-03 22:26, Coldfirex wrote:
Thanks SS. It says to basically trick windows into only seeing 512 of the memory. Of course hardware could be the problem, but probrably only if its older hardware, maybe pre-pII. I remember my old pentium 1 computers motherboard couldnt use anything past 128. If it was installed performance was decreased substantially.
On 2002-03-03 22:26, Coldfirex wrote:
Thanks SS. It says to basically trick windows into only seeing 512 of the memory. Of course hardware could be the problem, but probrably only if its older hardware, maybe pre-pII. I remember my old pentium 1 computers motherboard couldnt use anything past 128. If it was installed performance was decreased substantially.
On 2002-03-03 23:05, HowardDrake wrote:
Just for reference, that was due to the fact that cache in P1 systems only cached the first 64 megs of memory. PII systems increased that, but I remember that being a big problem with P1s.
-Howard
On 2002-03-03 23:56, K-Wulf wrote:
No SecretSquirrel, I think he's right about that 64MB bug in Pentium1 systems. It was a problem specific to the i430TX series of chipsets. The 430HX didn't have that prob. It's like he said, it just couln't cache anything over 64mb.