Windows 98 wont boot on new system
jba
512 MB
ram) to an athlon64 x2 with nvidia chipset and 2 GB RAM. I took the
harddisk
from the old box and put it into the new one. However, it oes not boot
anymore.
The boot process starts normally but after some seconds I see a
message on
the text screen and the system boots again. Since it boots imidiately,
I cant
read the message. I tried secure mode but no success. I also used the
boot
option where you have to click 'y' for each driver: It reboots after
the msmouse
driver. I deleted this from system.ini but no success.
I read the post about windows 98 not running with 2 GB and tried the
options
MinFileCache, MaxFileCache and MaxPhysPage but it does not change
anything.
So, is there any other thing I could try?
Juergen
TR
news:1190101781.1...@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
> I have just upgraded my system from athlon xp (via KT400 chipset and
> 512 MB
> ram) to an athlon64 x2 with nvidia chipset and 2 GB RAM. I took the
> harddisk
> from the old box and put it into the new one. However, it oes not boot
> anymore.
New system means new install.
Grtz,
TR
Ron Martell
There is no known instance of Windows 98 ever having been used
successbully on a computer with more than 1.5 gb of total RAM
installed.
And with anything over 512 mb you *must* limit the amount of RAM that
Windows can map for use as disk cache and when you go beyond 1 gb you
must also limit the total RAM that Windows 98 can see to preferably
not more than 1 gb total.
The disk cache limit goes into the [vcache] section of the system.ini.
The system.ini file will already have an existing [vcache] section
header line, almost certainly with no detail lines following it. Add
the following line immediately below the existing [vcache] header (no
blank lines between them) and make sure there is at least one blank
line between this new line and the next section header:
MaxFileCache=512000
The total RAM limit line goes into the existing [386enh] section of
the system.ini file, which will already have some detail lines
following it. You can insert this line as the first one below the
header, the last line in the section, or anywhere in the middle. Just
ensure that you do not insert any extraneous blank lines.
MaxPhysPage=40000
If both these parameters are correctly entered and the system will
still not boot Windows 98 then you are probably out of look unless the
manufacturer of your new system/motherboard has Windows 98 drivers
available for it and/or they have some technical support notes
regarding Windows 98 on this hardware available.
Good luck
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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