Jim,

I haven't worked with that board for a while, so my memory is
a little fuzzy.  I DO remember that IS a very common problem
and  I'm pretty sure that the fix is to turn off the external (L2?)
cache in the BIOS until after the install is finished.

Jim Meagher

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Barber" <[log in to unmask]>


> I'm trying to upgrade my computer with a FIC VA503+ motherboard. When I do
a clean install of win98, after the files are copied to the hard drive and
windows tries to start for the first time I get the following error
message...
>
> Insufficient memory to initialize Windows. Quit one or more memory
resident programs or remove unnecesary utilities in config.sys and
autoexec.bat and restart your computer.
>

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