WIN98SE and 2x512 dual channel on MSI Intel 875

[NickleM]

Just won`t work right ! First time gived Vfat error but after some researching setting that "limit memory" to 512 mb makes windows starting , still with strange errors (nd32.dll error, blue screens)
Is it because of WIN98SE ( WINXP worked just fine, great speed) ?
Are there any chances to make it work ( i really need WIN98SE on it ) ??
I tried also to limit below 512 (384) but still errors !!

 

[stevty2889]

Have you tried taking out one of the sticks of RAM? Win 98 really doesn't like more than 512MB, and it will cauase it to crash..

 

[NickleM]

Of course i could do that, i already did it and works fine but i would really like to make use of the extra memory i bought not to mention that dual channel improvements not working with one stick.
It must be a way, i`ve seen a lot of people showing off their specs like "Win98SE , 1 GB DDR Dual Channel and stuff ... ".

 

[Fern]

Well, I'm pretty sure there is a way to get 1 gig working decently. I'm a little bummed right now cuz i went to the link I had on the workaround and it has expired, so I can't post it or read it. It was a post here at Anandtech. Perhaps you can research the archives.

Here's a link to MS regarding an issue with 98 and more than 512 of ram. It concerns the vcache setting. You may have already seen/done this. If not though, may wanna check it out.
MS Link

 

[Harvey]

Add this to SYSTEM.INI to allow Win98 to use more than 512 MB of RAM:

MinFileCache=65536
MaxFileCache=65536

More info from the Borg of Redmond here and here.