win98 and 1gb of memory

[elendil]

Hi.

I am sitting at a friend and trying to get his pc to work (no, really) and first off we had a lot of trouble getting the memory to be recognized. Apparantly this motherboard requires ddr memory to be paired.

But we figured that out and got the system booting, now win98 makes a 'windows protection error, reboot your computer' during startup (nothing graphical). I was wondering if that means that windows is lame and has to crash because it cannot use one gig of memory or if it is because the two memory modules are incompatible (they are two different brands). Any help? A patch to make windows 98 function with more memory? I would really, really, really hate to have to install xp on his computer.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.

[elendil]

friday night? What part of the world do you live in? Friday morning here

Anyway. Thank you for all of the information. As it really WAS my friends pc, I am not able to try it out right now (at home), but I am considering switching the OS anyway, if the simple fixes for win98 mentioned here do not work.

Thanks again all.

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.

Oh btw I got to try out limiting the amount of memory with msconfig and it made the system boot. Now it just crashes randomly (more random than just win98). It is the SE-version as well.