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

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 17:27 -0600, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> The good news is, in late October, 2001, Microsoft will be releasing a new
> operating system that isn't limited to 512mb...
> 
Yeah, well since I don't use winblows a lot I don't have to pay the 
almost $200 for that defective OS.  LOL

> 
> 
> > My main computer today is a Sempron 3000+ with 1Gb memory.  I have no
> > problems at all with it on Linux.
> >
> > Once in a while I need to run 98SE on it to play a game (The last time
> > was when there was a change in cedega and it would not run my games for
> > a while).  I could not figure out for a while why the install kept
> > failing. When I remembered that win98 would not work with more than
> > 512mb of ram and reduced the system to that everything worked fime.
> >
> > Just one of those things that can bite you when least expected.
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 12:34 -0600, Thomas Wallis wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> > You might ry cedega for your games and be pleasantly surprised.  I use
> > it and have only booted to winblows about 5 times in the last year,
> > (when there was a cedega update that had a minor glitch as I said
> > above).
> >
> > http://www.transgaming.com/
> >
> >>    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.
> >>
> > I wonder if the memory dimms may have been incompatible.  Really strange
> > things can happen when there is a slight mismatch in performance of
> > memory.
> >
> >>                            Good luck!
> >>
> >>                            Tom W.
> >
> >
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