@PeOfEoMay 08.2004 — #its more of a hardware question then an os question. The question is how old is the motherboard and how much ram will it take. If the computer is pre atx, and does not use ddr ram, lets say sd, it will be hard because sd is going to be pretty expensive in large sticks because it is getting a tid bit rare. Most everyhing is ddr these days. There is some rd floating around, but that is pricy and most people just assume go for dual channel ddr. Id say, screw ram, get a new pc :p
@ray326May 08.2004 — #Win98 can have problems with memory > 512M but there are work arounds on MS and other sites. I agree with PeOfEo that you really should consider just getting a new PC or at least a MB/CPU upgrade AND an OS upgrade if you're running things that consume 2G.
@DaveSWMay 08.2004 — #In addition to that, the benefits of lots of RAM in Win98 follows a curve. At the low end more ram means better performance. Once you get to 512 the curve starts leveling out and you're wasting your time.
@riversdaleauthorMay 08.2004 — #I actually upgraded my MB to Gigabite GA-7VT600-L40006 with AMD-XP-3000+OEM CPU and 3x512Mb DDR-400 Crucial Tech memory, but still W98SE will not work. I was quite annoyed and thought it was the fault of the chap who builds my computers. I did my posting in order to find out whether there was a way of using W98SE with this new configuration. I now run W 2000 Professional.
@PeOfEoMay 08.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by ray326 [/i]
[B]Win98 can have problems with memory > 512M but there are work arounds on MS and other sites. I agree with PeOfEo that you really should consider just getting a new PC or at least a MB/CPU upgrade AND an OS upgrade if you're running things that consume 2G. [/B][/QUOTE] if you do that you will need a new atx powersupply, will want a new agp 8x video card and will need an atx case lol. So basically get a new computer!
My motherboard crapped its pants, its packed up in a box and getting send off the the newegg rma office. I have all of my parts sitting out on a clear part of my desk.
I well get a repaired or new msi neo 648L
and my proc is a p4 2.6 w/ 800mhz fsb, 512L2 cache, and ht.
Ram: 786, 512 is a geil gold dragon, cas is 2.5, 256 is kingston hyperx, it had a cas of 2, but I manually set the cas in bios so as it would run at 2.5 so that it would not crash everything the 512 gets loaded up and the 256 starts taken some load. Both a ddr400 / pc 3200
@ray326May 08.2004 — #I have all of my parts sitting out on a clear part of my desk.[/QUOTE] Oh now you've done it. I don't know whether I can believe [b]anything[/b] a guy says that makes [b]that[/b] claim.
@PeOfEoMay 09.2004 — #well its where my case was, which is now on a clear spot on my floor by my desk. Can you believe I can walk through my room? (In most parts of it)