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Problem shutting down. Blue Screen of death. Any ideas?

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Coki

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This only happens in Windows 98 not 2000. When I had 128 megs of ram my agp apparture size was 64megs in the BIOS. Windows 98 worked great.

When I added 128 more for a total of 256megs. Windows 98 started to lock up in games all the time. I went to the BIOS and increased the AGP apparture size to 256megs. That solved the problem but now when I shutdown I get some Blue Screen of death. It says something about my VCACHE settings and instead of shutting down the system reboots?

Anyone know how I might solve this blue screen?

Thanks.
 
Make sure you're not caching the Video BIOS
Thats the only suggestion I can think of right now.
Good luck.
 
Is it definatly the same mem sticks ?

have you tried any other appature settings ?




<< VCACHE is a 32-bit protected-mode cache driver. Windows 98 uses dynamic sizes for the virtual memory swap file, the cache for file and network access, and the CD-ROM cache. Both the swap file and cache sizes can grow or shrink, depending on the computer's memory configuration and the demand for memory from applications. This relieves users or administrators from having to change the cache parameters as new memory or new applications are added. Windows 98 can take advantage of new memory automatically and expand or reduce the file and cache sizes automatically based on demands when applications are loaded or unloaded. Because in Windows 98 some code is executed out of cache, cache sizes are larger in Windows 98 than they were in Windows 95 (the MapCache feature). Also, the networking, disk, CD-ROM, and paging caches are integrated and scale as more memory is added to the computer >>



Have a look in here and search on 'vcache' , there are some tuning settings that might help. Thou having the appature at the same setting as the RAM dosen't sound good !

Microsoft Paper
 
do you have a large cache hdd. YOu may need the fix. ALthouhg this is prodominatly a problem with amd processors it creeps up on intel systems once a while.
 
I have 255megs of ram. I added these settings to the system.ini file

[vcache]
minfilecache=26214
maxfilecache=66560

Are these settings correct? I burn CDs and play games mostly.

Now when I press shut down the system reboots or it says shutting down but it never does. The good news is that there is no more blue screen but I would like the thing to shutdown properly like it did when 128megs of ram was installed.

Thanks.
 
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