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    windows 98SE does not recognize my 2 gigs of ram!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Spare Tire, Oct 11, 2006.

  1. Spare Tire

    Spare Tire Notebook Evangelist

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    When i try to boot, it says i have too little memory. If i take out one ddr2 stick, which drops my ram to 1 gig, everything runs fine, but it can't do it with 2 sticks running dual channel. Is this normal? How to fix it?
     
    Spare Tire, Oct 11, 2006
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Upgrade from Windows 98? It's not meant to be able to address large amounts of RAM. Remember, systems still had 32 and 64MB of RAM with Win98, not even close to gigabytes.

    Quick google brought up this: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic368.html

    You should try it. Google knows lots of things.
     
    Pitabred, Oct 12, 2006
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    nealric Newbie

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    what possible reason could you have for running win98 on what is obviously a very capable machine? :confused:

    If you cant pay for a real OS, just about any linux distro is better.
     
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  4. Spare Tire

    Spare Tire Notebook Evangelist

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    Windows 98SE is the roxxor! I have a 1.5gig partition for it to play old dos games natively.
     
    Spare Tire, Oct 12, 2006
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    I didn't know oblivion in DOS requires 2gig memory. jk

    Can't you run those games in xp though? by going to proerties > compatibility?
     
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    Consider using DOSBOX for old games.
     
    Ice-Tea, Oct 12, 2006
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    I play a ton of old dos games (including the original street fighter) with DOSBOX...it is a great tool for DOS games....
     
    mtrivs, Oct 12, 2006
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    win98 & 2 gigs ram? When I had Win98, I had 2 gigs of hard drive space, WOOHOO
     
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    Dosbox runs old games much much better than Win98 ever did.

    And yeah, if you really really want to run Win98, then do it on hardware it supports. The OS is close to 10 years old, isn't supported any longer, and doesn't support modern hardware or modern quantities of RAM or modern anything else.
     
    Jalf, Oct 12, 2006
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