Ethan, reformat won't solve the problem, win9x include Me, never designed to
work with such amount of RAM, you have to limit Memory use to 512Mb, run
MSCONFIG, there is an option to do it. For strange reason I couldn't
explain, I've seen few machines that you have to limit Memory use to 510Mb
or less, the magic 512 number will result system crash for them (512 should
be fine, MS says).
Anything more than 512Mb is waste for win9x, I don't even think win9x can
take advantage more than 384Mb (doing Image editing and video editing on
win9x, will use more than 256, for most win9x users, 256 is enough).
However, if anyone has plan to upgrade to XP later, then more RAM is better.
Jun Qian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Matthews" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] How much RAM should I buy ?
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:12:16 -0500, Robert Zeoli <[log in to unmask]> posted
article
> <[log in to unmask]>, which said:
>
> > > Well, I just upgraded from 256 to 512 and was getting out-of-memory
errors after
> the upgrade and setting the MaxFileCache in the vcache section of the
system.ini
> file did not solve the problem. I had to reformat and reinstall after
America
> Online literally screwed up all the ports on my PC somehow or another.
Ever
> since I reformatted I have not been getting out of memory errors. I was
hoping
> that perhaps Windows might not necessarily like it that much when you add
memory
> and something went right. Now I know better than to say this because in
about
> 15 minutes I will get an out of memory error. I thought this reinstall
might
> have fixed my incessant winsock problems and after uploading 20 megabytes
I
> thought it was fixed and posted my message of adulation to a newsgroup.
> Literally 5 minutes later I got the same old winsock error. :-(
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