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Win 98 Memory Limitations

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by eutychus

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Can anyone verify that Win 9X and ME has problems with more than 256M of RAM? I had a compute that crashed and was told by the vendor that this is a problem with Win 9X and ME. After searching the Microsoft site, I couldn't find any verification of this. Any have more information?

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by brettcard

Windows ME and 98 does not use any more then 128mb of RAM? If you have more than that then it is pointless. I will try to find you some hard data on that.

by sergey kovzik

this isn't true. theoretically this OS is 32-bit, so it can access up to 4GB of memory. Practically I know guy who used it on 1GB of memory. You have to find out motherboard with four DIMM slots - 4x256MB :)
Some hints from Microsoft:

support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q181/8/62.ASP
support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q253/9/12.ASP

Sincerely, Sergey
Brainbench MVP for Win98 Administration

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