Anyone know what would casue strange behavior. I just brought me a motherboard. The Abit KT7A-RAID about mouth ago and thigs are running smooth and solid. My question is on PC memory when I pair up 2 Micron PC133 256mb cas 2 type for a total of 512mb on both memory bank they work just find and run rock solid in Windows 98,ME or NT 2000. But when i install another Micron PC133 cas 2 on the last memory bank and fill all 3 banks up. And power up my computer it post 768 and boot's into Windows 98 normaly but after the OS sit. It start to behave strangely and programs keep telling me that applications that you are trying to run does't have enough memory to load it. That goes for Windows 2000 as well it will load up half way and give me the blue screen. I was reading the new's group about this problem heard other people having the same problem as well. Although I never paid to much attention to it until i decided to buy the board and now i struck with it. Is there any thing that i have to do in the BIOS conforgation on memory setup that could fix this glitch? Someone told that I have to get ECC memory for this motherboard.
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Abit KT7A RAID Memory glitch
- Thread starter super7
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There is a problem of Windows using over 512 mb of ram. According to Q253912 in Microsoft's knowledge base this can be resolved by limiting the memory used by Windows by:
Type Start/Run msconfig
From the General tab, click on "Advanced"
Place a check mark in "Limit Memory To" and fill in 512MB to limit the amount of memory used by Windows
Click on OK. You will be told to reboot
or by limiting the amount of memory that Vcache uses to 512 megabytes (524,288 KB) or less by using the MaxFileCache setting in the System.ini file to reduce the maximum amount
Type Start/Run msconfig
From the General tab, click on "Advanced"
Place a check mark in "Limit Memory To" and fill in 512MB to limit the amount of memory used by Windows
Click on OK. You will be told to reboot
or by limiting the amount of memory that Vcache uses to 512 megabytes (524,288 KB) or less by using the MaxFileCache setting in the System.ini file to reduce the maximum amount
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Thank you for the info. I never thought Windows OS would have a problem addressing memory over 512mb. It was kind of useless anyway to put that amount of memory for that OS. I thought that first it was a Motherboard problem but after reading a lot of new group they told me it was not the motherboard but the OS it self.
I did configure and adjusted Windows tweaking memory and check mark 512 limit and thing's work great now. Thanks Again
I did configure and adjusted Windows tweaking memory and check mark 512 limit and thing's work great now. Thanks Again
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UnseenMenace's fix would be necessary for someone who multi-boots several different operating systems, of which only some support > 512 MB of RAM ( and don't want to be swapping a DIMM in and out all the time). That's why the fix would be necessary - if you're running JUST Win95/98/ME, then yes, it would be easier just to take the extra stick out.
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