windows says not enough memory to load

[mouse9]

i've just built a new machine ( intel MB w/875P chipset,
2.6 ghz p4, 2 gig of ram, two seagate sata drives, dvd-
rom, geforcefx video, audigy ls sound) i fdisked ok,
formatted ok, initial load of win 98. on reboot to install
devices, it tells me not enough memory to initialise
windows, remove tsr's or files from autoexec or config
sys. this is a new one for me.

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

Originally Windows Me and Windows 98 were designed to handle 2GB's of
RAM. In reality it will only handle 1 GB of RAM. This will also depend on
hardware installed, in particular the mother board and it's components.
In some cases Win98/ME will function normally with 1.5 GB of RAM.
See the MS KB articles below.

Making the following changes SYSTEM.INI file only limits the memory the
virtual hard drive cache (VCACHE) is allowed to allocate. It does NOT limit
memory available to Windows or other programs.

If the system has 384MB's of RAM installed following line can be
added to the [vcache] section of windows\system.ini file.
MaxFileCache=275000

If the system has 512MB's of RAM installed following line can be
added to the [vcache] section of windows\system.ini file.
MaxFileCache=358000

If the system has 700MB's of RAM or more installed following line MUST be
added to the [vcache] section of windows\system.ini file but never more.
MaxFileCache=512000

If you go over 1GB of RAM and still receive errors add the following line
to the [386enh] section of the System.ini file: MaxPhysPage=40000
This limits the amount of physical RAM that Windows can access
to 1GB. If the errors go away with this setting remove the memory over
1GB as it will not be used with this setting.

Windows 95 Can Access Up to Two GB of RAM:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q181/5/94.asp

Error Message: Insufficient Memory to Initialize Windows:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;184447

"Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q253/9/12.ASP

Computer May Reboot Continuously with More Than 1.5 GB of RAM:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304943

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Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
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"mouse9" wrote

[Richard G. Harper]

A follow-up to Bert's advice - if you do get Windows to start after applying
the fix he recommends, please let us know. Not that I doubt his advice
(because it is correct) but because if you can successfully start Windows
you'll be the first person with 2gb of memory to be able to do so and tell
us so. I'd like to be able to tell others that it is indeed possible. My
personal best so far is only 1.5gb of RAM installed.

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