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Omniz · Post by **Omniz** » June 25, 2003, 6:07 pm

what is the limit of ram that can be installed in windows ME or windows 2000? win 98 is 768 or so right?

Thanks in Advance

noel · Post by **noel** » June 25, 2003, 6:52 pm

98/ME - 512

2000/XP - You should be able to address 2GB (or perhaps more).

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » June 25, 2003, 7:02 pm

The standard limit is 512 megs but you can mess around with windows 9x to make it take more. I used to run windows me a long time ago with a gig of ram in it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;q253912

basically open system.ini and set MaxFileCache to equal 524,288kb or less.

but seriously, shitcan that pos operating system and upgrade to windows xp.

Omniz · Post by **Omniz** » June 25, 2003, 7:15 pm

Yes I have XP but since XP doesnt let you assign IRQ values I cant play certain games with it because my Ethernet Card and Video card have the same IRQ and im getting disconnected. So for certain games Im looking for a different operating system to solve my problem.

noel · Post by **noel** » June 25, 2003, 7:22 pm

In all seriousness, you either have a problem with your motherboard, your video card, or your NIC that you have no business having. Changing the operating system is not the answer. Changing/Properly configuring the offending part is the solution.

Modern computers have no reason to have their IRQs fucked with.

Omniz · Post by **Omniz** » June 25, 2003, 7:24 pm

thanks aranuil I go back and look at the problem some more. Never had the disconnect problem until I went to broadband.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » June 25, 2003, 7:26 pm

Omniz wrote:Yes I have XP but since XP doesnt let you assign IRQ values.

If you have PnP OS set to "no" and clear ESCD set to "yes" in your bios at install XP won't load the ACPI (I think, it's been a while) drivers. After install you're hosed.

I had the same trouble on this PC, I had all kinds of trouble and had to re-install XP. No troubles now, everything is on seperate IRQs. There's an MS knowledgebase article on it, I'm too lazy to look again though

noel · Post by **noel** » June 25, 2003, 7:39 pm

Some of the NICs that ISPs are peddling off on the end users are total crap. Given that a 100Mbps NIC is like $30 these days, just go get a real NIC.

Aabidano is dead on. Check to make sure PNP is enabled in your BIOS, then make sure that the drivers for all of your cards are fully up to date. If that doesn't work, and the NIC was the last thing you added, pull it, and get a real NIC. I highly recommend Intel or Netgear products. For an internal NIC, I'd likely go with Intel.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » June 25, 2003, 8:33 pm

Aranuil wrote: I highly recommend Intel or Netgear products. For an internal NIC, I'd likely go with Intel.

All of the Netgear cards run variations of the DEC tulip chip, you can't go wrong there. It's was one of the first 10/100 chips (~1994?) and is just about bulletproof, they work with anything, BSD, X86 Sun, Linux, etc...

I remember paying $800 for them

You never know what you're getting with Intel, they do some flakey shit on occasion.

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