Windows 95 doesn't boot with more than 1GB of RAM

RE: Windows 95 doesn't boot with more than 1GB of RAM

Anand — Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:53:00 GMT

What about XP? Does it do something similar?

RE: Windows 95 doesn't boot with more than 1GB of RAM

Raymond Chen — Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:04:00 GMT

Windows XP is based on the NT codebase and operates completely differently from Windows 95/98/Me. Thank goodness.

RE: Windows 95 doesn't boot with more than 1GB of RAM

Andreas Häber — Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:21:00 GMT

See the articles by Mark Russinovich at http://www.sysinternals.com/publ.shtml for lots of information about how Windows NT works. Guess you'll find the answer there...

RE: Windows 95 doesn't boot with more than 1GB of RAM

gvg — Tue, 19 Aug 2003 22:36:00 GMT

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RE: Windows 95 doesn't boot with more than 1GB of RAM

Daniel Marois — Sun, 24 Aug 2003 07:02:00 GMT

Strangely enough I have a PC with 512MB and Win 95 boots just fine. Maybe I didn't understand....

RE: Windows 95 doesn't boot with more than 1GB of RAM

Daniel Bishop — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:19:00 GMT

Just as strange... we've got a win98 machine w/ 1024MB and refuses to boot. grr...

re: Windows 95 doesn't boot with more than 1GB of RAM

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 20:03:00 GMT

Windows 98 w/1024MB will work if you limit the vchache to 512MB maximum. Enter this in the system.ini file under [vcache]

maxfilecache=512000

If your computer has more than 1GB then there is a way to limit Win98 memory access so that it will run properly.

re: Windows 95 doesn't boot with more than 1GB of RAM

Tim S — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:05:00 GMT

I also had problems with Windows ME and 1GB of DDR2700. I was able to fix it by setting the maxfilecache to 640000. 768000 or higher failed.

I appended the following to my system.ini:
[vcache]
maxfilecache=640000

Thanks you Anonymous!!

Now my question is what happens to the rest of the memory? Is it used at all by the OS or other apps?

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