Windows Me + 1GB RAM = Problems?

[GFORCE100]

Hi guys,

Well for some reason each time I boot Windows Me with 1GB RAM it gives me a BSOD saying Windows protection error and system halted. I have reinstalled the OS twice yet the problem reoccurs.

Has anyone ever come across this? Windows 2000 works fine.
All modules are the same.

Thanks

 

[Helznicht]

>512 + Win9x(ME) = Problem

 

[Noriaki]

If you go over about half a gig you have to be very careful how you set up your disk cache and virtual memory and so on becuase Win9x/ME can't handle that kind of RAM very well.

But you should be able to get it to run, search in the OS forum you should be able to find some threads about tweaking Win9x/ME to run with large amounts of RAM.

 

[GFORCE100]

Well guys before it was 768MB and it run fine. The thing is I can't set any cache and what not since it will just BSOD on me upon boot-up.

I really think there must be a way round this than having to take out 1 DIMM each time I wish to run Windows Me.

 

[Helznicht]

How About:

taking out some ram
boot into WinMe
change settings
reboot to make sure all is well
re-insert additional mem
reboot into WinMe

See if that helps....

 

[Cenalian]

Helznicht, that was exactly what I was going to suggest


And just search/browse some topics on setting the vcache size, I've seen it like 5 times in the last 2 days.

 

[GFORCE100]

Okay guys. Just not an elegant way to go about it. Ideally Windows Me should say ahhh looks like this PC has more RAM than I can eat up so I'll save some for supper, then limit itself to 512MB or indeed 768MB RAM as I know that amount worked.

 

[Nevo]

Windows Me + *anything* = Problems

Geez, you got 1GB RAM, use W2K and get the most out of your hardware!

 

[Helznicht]

"use W2K"

He does, dual boot.

 

[Adul]

Microsoft's knowledge base has this problem documented. It is a os limitation, but you can adjust certain settings to go around it.