win98 and 1gb of memory

[Blitter]

Work arounds for Win9.x users with more than 512MB of RAM here

Also:

Windows 98/98SE cannot support more than 1GB memory. error message"Insufficient Memory to Initialize Windows".


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If your computer has 1 gigabyte (GB) or more of random-access memory (RAM) installed, Windows may not start. Also, when you try to start your computer, you may receive the following error message:





Insufficient memory to initialize Windows.

Quit one or more memory-resident programs or remove unnecessary utilities from your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, and restart your computer.


This behavior may also occur during Windows Setup, or when you try to start Windows for the first time.


RESOLUTION
To work around this issue, add the following line to the [386enh] section of the System.ini file:

MaxPhysPage=30000

This limits the amount of physical RAM that Windows can access to 768 MB. To do so, use the following steps:




Use any text editor (such as Notepad) to edit the System.ini file.

Add the following line in the [386Enh] section of the file
MaxPhysPage=30000

Save the file, and then restart your computer

Hope this helps some.

Blitter