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| Answer» <html><body><p>To all of you kind and helpful types who tried to help me get past a really bad Win98 install ...patio, willyW, ianbell, Broni, Sid, Daniel1212, quaxo... Thanks.<br/>I really appreciate all of you. <br/>Unfortunately, sometimes you just have to admit it when you're licked. I'm licked. A couple of times I got so frustrated trying to get WIN98 to behave that I started to smack the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/computer-243299" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about COMPUTER">COMPUTER</a> around. How pointless is that?<br/><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/went-734459" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WENT">WENT</a> out and got a bootable XP CD and had the little sucker humming like a top on the first try. Even got it to work with my full 2 gigs of RAM. All the drivers for my graphics card and motherboard are loaded up and work just as they're supposed to.<br/>Thanks again, folks. Good to hear you are up and running...stop by anytime !I just wanted to thank you people for all your wealth of information. I was stumped and I had the same error message for insufficient memory after I loaded 98. I just took out 1 stick of memory and it ran fine. I had 2 Gig dropped to 1.<br/><br/><br/>Thanx,<br/><br/>Cindy TessierThat's certainly good news and Welcome to CH ! !Quote from: Broni on January 13, 2008, 08:52:08 PM</p><blockquote>I asked, because...<br/>That's the error, when you have 1GB, or more RAM installed on Windows 98: <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/kb/184447">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184447</a><br/>Of course, it can be done only by Micro$oft, to give you an error about <strong>Insufficient memory</strong>, while actually, you have too much of it...LOL<br/></blockquote><br/>I had the Windows 98 startup problem with 2 GB of ram and the advice in the link above solved it for me, i.e., adding "MaxPhysPage=30000" to the [386Enh] section of system.ini. (I had previously tried removing half the ram, but then the machine wouldn't even boot the BIOS for some reason.)<br/><br/>Unfortunately I still had the problem of not being able to open a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/dos-432778" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DOS">DOS</a> window, so I had to add a MaxFileCache entry in the [VCache] section of system.ini, as discussed at this link which was also posted <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/earlier-963550" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EARLIER">EARLIER</a> in the thread: <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912</a>. I used a value of 262144. (I couldn't use 524288 because that caused a new startup problem.)<br/><br/>A MinFileCache entry turned out not to be necessary, but I did have to remove the fixed paging file size I was previously using for virtual memory, and let Windows manage that on its own. That, in combination with the MaxFileCache entry did the trick for the DOS windows.<br/><br/>So now I can run my legacy games again! My Computer Mainboard Gigabyte G41, CPU Core Due 3.0, RAM 2GB, I install Win98SE but I see error Quit one or more memory-resident...I search error throught google and I try follow guide some forum but not ok! I think install Win98SE have more option install. I try command (example): C:\win98Se\Setup /? and I try: Setup /im ---> yeah ok I install Win98SE success with 2GB! My English is bad because I'm Vietnamese Quote from: tuannvbg on June 09, 2010, 10:34:19 PM<blockquote> My Computer Mainboard Gigabyte G41, CPU Core Due 3.0, RAM 2GB, I install Win98SE but I see error Quit one or more memory-resident...I search error throught google and I try follow guide some forum but not ok! I think install Win98SE have more option install. I try command (example): C:\win98Se\Setup /? and I try: Setup /im ---> yeah ok I install Win98SE success with 2GB! My English is bad because I'm Vietnamese <br/></blockquote><br/>Please start your own topic.I found I was still having problems after applying the fixes above, so I ended up using another solution: Virtual PC 2004, which is available <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/free-240724" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FREE">FREE</a> from Microsoft:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D58729D-DFA8-40BF-AFAF-20BCB7F01CD1&displaylang=en">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D58729D-DFA8-40BF-AFAF-20BCB7F01CD1&displaylang=en</a><br/><br/>You install this under a later operating system, such as Windows 2000 or XP, and it lets you specify how much RAM the virtual PC will have available to it, which solves the problem. I used the 2004 version because it runs under Windows XP, but later versions are available too. There are a number of legacy games that I was able to get running this way, with a couple of exceptions.<br/><br/>Here is an article that has a table showing compatiblility of various versions with various operating systems, and links for where to download them:<br/><br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC</a><br/><br/>I found this set of instructions helpful:<br/><br/><a href="http://www.metzomagic.com/showArticle.php?fileName=/int/help/VirtualPC2007FAQ.html&articleType=Steves+XP+Games+Corner&title=metzomagic.com+Virtual+PC+2007+FAQ">http://www.metzomagic.com/showArticle.php?fileName=/int/help/VirtualPC2007FAQ.html&articleType=Steves+XP+Games+Corner&title=metzomagic.com+Virtual+PC+2007+FAQ</a><br/><br/>I installed both Windows 95 and 98 using those instructions, but with 95 it was also necessary to apply the second tip from this blog:<br/><br/><a href="https://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/02/15/372846.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/02/15/372846.aspx</a><br/></body></html> | |