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Indy11

Post Wed Apr 07, 2004 6:09 am

Self-build? How did you guess? It always has been my ambition to do just that.

The one before the Dell almost was a self-build. It started out as a store label but I ended up replacing most of the components (except for the floppy and internal modem card.

Also, new Upgrade issue, sort of. Note to Taw, stop laughing (in advance).

So with 512Mb PC800 RDRAM in my Dell, I'm basically topped out with Me. At least that's what I always thought. But I recently came across a technical bulleting that said that IF I had installed more RAM, I needed to limit my vcache size to 512Mb or less in order to prevent memory addressing / conflict problem.

I am pretty sure that this is nonsense and that, with Me, 512Mb is as much RAM as the OS can use but can anyone explain this technical note to me?

It seems to say that there is a work around to have ME use more than 512Mb RAM (I checked the MS sites referred to in this post and they don't shed any more light).

Edited by - Indy11 on 4/7/2004 7:22:10 AM

Tawakalna

Post Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:28 am

ah my friend, 'tis true, 95/98/98Se/Me cannot natively handle more than 512mb of RAM. Unless you obtain the secret of the black arts from myself and learn how to alter your vcache settings, then more RAM just will not work and very prob'ly your computer wont even boot.

expect the revelation of this secret to appear in your e-mail very soon, unless Esq decides once again to give away our accumalated knowledge to the masses

(alternatively you can look on the MS Knowledge base where it's available for all to see...)

Esquilax

Post Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:55 pm

Indy - Ha, ha! RDRAM! Sucker! Sorry, but RD is far superior to DDR, but as you know, it vanished because it was too expensive to produce. The next RAMBUS is supposed to be even better though.

Taw - Not this time . I used tp know how to play around with it in ME, but I haven't done it for years. Care to email the method to me and refesh my memory? I can't be bother visiting MS.

Indy11

Post Wed Apr 07, 2004 4:46 pm

I should explain that I understand HOW to do it, fiddling with the vcache. BUT I don't understand why it works. Maybe I misunderstand the Me limitation.... Is it that Me cannot address more than 512Mb of RAM ... or ... is it that Me needs help to avoid setting up a cache that will step on memory addresses used by other hardware or applications (i.e. video card) but will then allow applications to make use of more than 512Mb of RAM?

Esquilax

Post Wed Apr 07, 2004 4:53 pm

I don't think that ME supports more than 512 natively. This is presumably because it is still is a GUI based upon DOS like Win98 (more or less). Some people say that ME was the first Windows OS that didn't just put a nice GUI over DOS. I say that it was 2K.

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