1.5 ghz ram and need help.

[Bill69stuck]

I purchased 1.5 ghz of ram pc-133 for my new Motherboard which is ASUS A7V133 now I seem to have a problem which I have never ran into before. The board see all the mem thats there and checks it fine, But when I go to install windows I had to only leave one strip in the membanks and then I got my os loaded I took and went to the mem and added it and now windows ME just hangings IDLE once I have all 3 512 installed in the board even 2 does same thing. But whats werid I ran run either of the 3 strips alone and they run and test fine. IS it where Windows ME needs a hand seeing it. If so please instruct as to help me fix please.

[oc jason]

friggin double post

[oc jason]

first off Win ME cant even handle that much ram- if you go to Win2k pro you can use it all-not really cause no matter WHAT you are doiing youll never use that much ram-youll run out of CPU cycles b4 that ram is used. I think that is your problem Me is only set to use 768 megs max!! as it is not an NT based kernel. i assume that they are 512mb sticks-thats why any of the 3 alone will work cause its under 512, but after that you excedding what it can handle-believe me SWITH to 2000-and you WILL be happy0or try to throw 3 sticks of 128 or 256 mb sticks and i bet it will work fine!!

[Bill69stuck]

Welp you are right 3 256s worked just fine so really I am stuck until I get win2000 pro but Are you sure theres noway to make ME or 98se to make it use it I already own those.

[Thelemac]

They just can't handle the paging. It won't actually use more than 256MB...well, it will, but not well. You wouldn't notice a speed improvement with more than that.

[joey_rjm5]

Currently, ebay is selling 512 mb pc133 for around 40 bucks. I would assume you paid close to that. I would sell a couple of them. You just can't get much use out of them.

Either sell them, get windows 2000 or use them in another system. Even if you have that much in 2k I don't think it will make much of a difference.

If money isn't an issue though, I wouldn't worry about it:D

[oc jason]

no there is no way to make 98 or ME handle more than 768 megs of ram and it really wont use nore then 256 so id really love to buy a 512 stick from u if you dont mind

[Newbie_Doo]

Save it for the next computer you build. Memory is cheap enough that having 1GB laying around isn't going to kill you. Of course...If you want to unload some of it...nah, never minid.

[Gabertooth]

Bill,

First of all welcome to the forums! And RAM isn't measured in GHZ (gighertz) it's measured in GB (gigbytes). And the others were right you can't get the 9x kernel to page that much RAM. Sorry.

-Gabertooth

[TUK101]

Unless you are doing video editing or working with audio tracks then there is no reason to run more than 256 megs of ram. Windows 9* cant make use of it. :D

[Mykex]

You can try the Win9X lrg amounts of memory fix. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q253/9/12.ASP

(Copy and pasted from someplace else I posted feeling lazy)

I had a problem going over 512MB but not @512MB, Win98se. The card would not load at 768MB and would only run 16color 640x480. I entered my on vcache settings in system.ini and problem solved.

This is vcache not virtual memory (I see it cross confused alot) for 512MB this should work.
[vacache]
MinFileCache=65536
MaxFileCache=131072
That's a 64MB minimum/128MB max

For me with 768MB I use.....
[vacache]
MinFileCache=65536
MaxFileCache=196608
That's a 64MB minimum/192MB max

(New stuff.....)
Just to see if it works for your setup I would enter.....
[vcache]
MinFileCache=196608
MaxFileCache=393216
That's a 64MB minimum/128MB max

It cant hurt to try and always remember that you can use your ram as a swapfile in some cases/games so even though Windows will only use so much other programs will. So in some cases using ram as a swapfile you will see dramatic improvements. I'm playing an Online game with a bad memory leak and of my 768mb I've utilized as much as 710mb of ram. Much faster to access ram than it is a swap on a HDD.



Note the blue line..........

[SteveI]

Can anyone say ...RAM Drive????

I'd love to see the performance increase,,, if any.

[M@€$†®Ö™]

Ramdrives are nice for those who have tons of memory :D But the reliability of those Ramdrives are not proven with large size ramdrives or so I have seen.


Maestro