Windows 95/98 forum: win98 se problem

The secret could be that Windows 98 only supports up to 512 Mb. Remove half of the memory and see if that works.

Once it works, you can go into the General Tab of msconfig and use that to limit the memory to 512 Mb. Then - of you like - you can put in the other 512 Mb so you won't lose it. But it won't be functional at all.

Are you sure you can get drivers for Windows 98 for all the features offered by this mobo: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=k8n_neo2_platinum

Hopet his helps.

Kees

Probably have to get advice from Kees on this....

...but, after 98 is up and running, it may be possible to use any extra RAM as a RAM Drive so, after boot-up, you can store stuff (possibly games) in there for ultra high speed access.

Never had the memory to try this myself so can you advise us Kees ?

There are several programs out there, costing about $25, for several different OS's, including 98 - THIS ONE can emulate 1.44 & 2.88 Floppy drives as well as a HDD.

There is an INTERESTING ARTICLE here that tells you how to go about it without a third party program.

Near the bottom of THIS ARTICLE you can see the Ramdrive.sys parameters. Looks like you won't get more than 32Megs.

PLEASE message me if anyone gets it going OK. I need some more real RAM before I can try it.

Mike

This is the link with all info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912
But the OP must first remove everything above 512 Mb before he can do the first trick (limiting vcache).

Kees

I had the same problem. Solved by adding Device = C:\windows\Himem.sys and Device = C:\windows\emm386.exe to config.sys file

Good Luck

twa14