If I understand you correctly, this is simple matter of win9x physical
limitation.  win9x was designed to handle max 512M of RAM, any more physical
RAM will result problems.  You can use more than 512M or RAM, but the trick
you have to do is to limit windows RAM usage down to 512.  MS has a detailed
document, you can get it out.

So, either, you will need to upgrade OS to win2k/XP, or stay with 512 for
ME, or run MSCONFIG, under "advanced" tab, there is an option to limit
memory usage, set it to 512.

I've seen some systems won't even work with 512 limitation set in place, I
had to down them to 510 or so in order to enable them to stop crashing.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bud Jarman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 2:03 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] memory lock up


> I have an MSI 845e Max 2 6398E mother board. I am running 512 MB Double
sided  Kingston PC2100 ECC memory in the #1 slot. When I try to install
memory in slot #2 Win ME starts in safe mode. when I try to restart again I
get a windows protection error code. If I take it back it starts in safe
mode and I have to run system restore to get it back to normal. I contacted
Kingston support and they replaced both moduals and I still get the same
thing

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