memory chip

Not too sure what you are referring to about cheese, but...

Win98se has an issue with memory. the maximum memory a system can have is 511mb anything over that limit even if supported by the motherboard will cause strange memory troubles.

As for system boards, try to avoid running different types of memory together, although some boards won't complain about mixed types and sizes it is generally not a good idea.

eg. mixing fsb 100 chips with fsb 133 chips can cause unpredictable results if the bios/board is set to fsb 133 because the slower 100's are trying to be run too fast. This same problem can occur if running pc2100 and pc2700 modules even if both are fsb 133.

so in short first check that memories are compatible, move on to investigate if you are shadowing system and video roms (this will reduce available memory), check if your motherboard has onboard video using system memory, and finally optimize win98 so it doesn't manage memory the microsoft way!

**microsoft way does a real bad job of handling memory. It builds a big file cache leaving no room for user apps.
edit system.ini by adding under [vcache]
MaxFileCache = 4096
MinFileCache = 4096
This will limit windows to 4mb instead of 60% of total memory
therefore:
192mb * .6 = 116mb file cache
becomes 4mb file cache which will add 112mb back into the memory pool.
IE unfortunately grabs 20% for itself so
192mb * .2 = 38.4mb
so this change will increase app memory from
37.6mb current to 149.6mb which will help
you.

regards
rick