Does windows 98/me support extra memory

Microsoft states that Windows 98 will operate with 128 max,performance will suffer over this amount,depending on the motherboard and system this has been proven that you can use maximum amount that the MB will support.
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The PCWorld November 2001 issue states the following. You're running into a problem with Windows or the limitations of your PC's BIOS. Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, and Me aren't designed to work with more than 512MB of RAM. (Windows NT, 2000, and XP don't have this limitation.) So according to this article you should be able to use up to 512MB of RAM.

Some older motherboards aren't designed to take 256MB and 512MB RAM modules. Check your manual or your PC manufacturer's Web site; sometimes a BIOSupgrade solves the problem.

Good Luck

Mike

you can throw as much ram as the motherboard can handle. but it won't affect performance in a negative way

I agree with Mike that your system will allow to handle up to 512MB. At any point of time i do not think that you will used up most of it even running multimedias and video editing.Your CPU will used up to 100% before your ram could be utilise fully.To place safe as not getting your motherboard to crash, what you can do is to use a PC 100 ram instead of a PC 133. go to dos prompt and change the cascaden level to 2.
2 - 100mhz
3 - 133mhz

Good luck.
Nad

what you heard isn't true. The maximum amount of memory available for an operating system is dependent upon what the motherboard will support. If the motherboard will support 512MB, then the OS will use 512. If it supports 2MB, the OS will use 2.
The Operating System will use whatever is available up to 512MB. Windows 2000 and XP support up to 4GB of RAM

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