[aclug-L] Re: If you had a Win98se Question what forum/blog would you go to?

[Thomas Wallis <wallis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, ironrose wrote:

> Very good observation.  I was wondering why that question was being
> asked.  When I had win98se, I wasn't able to use 512mb of ram in the
> computer without it becoming glitchy.  I took the ram back down to 384mb
> and I had less problems.  Just an FYI as to what happened to me.  :-(

        This sounds like a good trick to try.  It can't hurt anything.

        I have a computer running 98 (dual boot with SUSE 10).  It has 
512M of memory.  I don't have too many problems with it (it is an Athlon). 
98 crashes fairly regularly, but I don't expect much from it.  I use SUSE 
for all of my printing, websurfing, etc (98 only for the games).  My 
version of 98 is the upgrade edition from 95, and it does have some USB 
support.  I have an HP inkjet on it, as well as a USB mouse.  The mouse 
works, I don't think I have ever printed anything under Windows with it.

        I did run across a motherboard once that had trouble with large 
amounts of memory.  It was a VIA chipset about the same age as the 
original poster's machine.  This machine is a file server for the CS Dept. 
It has 512M of memory in it.  When I put more memory (1G) in it, it slowed 
down dramatically (running LINUX!).  Otherwise, it worked fine.  I could 
only guess that either the chipset had trouble with large amounts of 
memory or the motherboard itself was subtley defective (maybe bad memory 
slots?). Anyway, I took it back to 512M and it is still running today.

                                Good luck!

                                Tom W.

  >
> Carl D Cravens wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, michael holmes wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I think that usb is strictly a 98SE only.  I was always told to install
>>> at least 98SE if usb was going to be used.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> And David said the OS in question was Win98SE... heck, it's in the
>> _subject line_ of the message.  So I don't get why people keep
>> dragging the "you have to have SE to do USB" into the equation.
>>
>>
>>
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