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kyro2 problem, too much ram!

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chuckwagon

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I have 512 mb of ram and when i had both sticks in, the video card would not work under hardware acceleration. Under the recommendation of MTDEW, i removed one of the sticks and the video card works! but now i have a stick of ram that i cannot use. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem and what should i do? is it a driver problem or what? Thanks for any input.

Charles
 
I added the following lines to my system.ini file...
MinFileCache=65536
MaxFileCache=65536

and i put int he second stick of 256 ram and the problem came back!! I took out the second stick to make sure it's the ram, and the problem goes away. Should i make these numbers bigger or what? Thanks for the help so far!

Charles
 
Have you tried it with both sticks of memory in one at a time? Maybe one is bad. It's extremely doubtful the problem is with the RAM count or the OS not liking that amount of memory.
 


<< Have you tried it with both sticks of memory in one at a time? Maybe one is bad. It's extremely doubtful the problem is with the RAM count or the OS not liking that amount of memory. >>



WIn98Se doesn't like it when it reaches 512Mb.
 


<< WIn98Se doesn't like it when it reaches 512Mb. >>

True, but that is what those suggested lines in system.ini are supposed to address.

Have you considered that the RAM may be bad? Perhaps you may want to increase the VIO.
 
Am still waiting for this results. He should really try one RAM at a time. Try the first stick alone then the second stick alone and see if there's any error.

Did you get the timing wrong?? CAs3 running at CAs2??
 
I tried both sticks one at a time and both work flawlessly...i also changed the system.ini lines to what you suggested...nothing.
The ram is Cas 2.5, i think under cmos it's auto detect, i'll look into it. Is it me or is AT running very slowly?

Charles
 


<< I tried both sticks one at a time and both work flawlessly...i also changed the system.ini lines to what you suggested...nothing.
The ram is Cas 2.5, i think under cmos it's auto detect, i'll look into it. Is it me or is AT running very slowly?

Charles >>



When you said nothing, does it mean that everything is well with 512mb??
 
What i ment was that i changed the lines in the system.ini file and booted up w/ both sticks and the problem was still there. I tried each stick one at a time and the system worked perfectly. It's just when you use both sticks the video problem exists. I can use both sticks when i use my voodoo 3 card in computer. But only 1 stick when my kyro 2 is in the computer. thanks for all the help so far!

Charles
 
Here are my cmos ram settings...
CAS-2.5T
RAS Active-6T
RAS Precharge-4T

I know the CAS is right, but i odn't know about the others.

Charles
 
n/m found the answer

Vcache

Vcache is the Windows disk-caching virtual device driver. This is a very important part of Windows, as it provides excellent disk performance. Windows, however, limits vcache from it's total potential. The following tweak will keep Vcache from taking up all your RAM, and being resized all the time.

Here's how to improve it. Type 'sysedit' in your 'start' , 'run' dialog box and navigate to "System.ini". In the ini file, look for [vcache] and add the following:

MinFileCache= nnn
MaxFileCache= nnn
ChunkSize= nnn


(nnn represents a number, multiple of 2)

'MinFileCache' and 'MaxFileCache' should be the same ( about 25% of your RAM ) to avoid resizing. 'ChunkSize' should generally be '512', but you can omit that one. You should set MinFileCache and MaxFileCache to about 25% of your total RAM for best performance, i.e 8190 for 32Mb RAM, 16384 for 64Mb, 32768 for 128Mb...

These are sample settings from one of our PCs ( 256Mb RAM, Windows 98 )
[vcache]
MinFileCache=65536
MaxFileCache=65536
ChunkSize=512

Notes: Generally, the more RAM you have, the bigger vcache can be. Remember that the RAM used by vcache can't be used by applications. Also, Windows 98/98SE has better memory management than 95, so you might not notice much improvement using that tweak


probably ignore the 25% part and stick with 65536kb cache

arg, i think windows is still screwy.. after a while i supposedly don't have enuph memory and can't load programs. 512MB %@#
 
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