The Computer constantly rebooting was EXACTLY what was happening. NOW you post,LOL. I pulled this comp's HD and put it in my home comp and the same rebooting accured, so I at least had the savvy to track the problem down. I never knew 98 didn't like more that 1 gig of RAM. I guess 3 gigs is completely overdoing it:) Once and only once I got the out of memory error, thats what led me to yank the ram out and that did it!
But thanks for the info, I'm off to read it.
NUTTZ
Originally posted by Shiva
You actually didn't have to remove the RAM. Microsoft's Knowledge Base has two articles relevant to Win98SE and large amounts of memory -- Computer May Reboot Continuously with More Than 1.5 GB of RAM and "Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed.
The former has the solution to the direct problem -- open up your SYSTEM.INI file and add the following line to the [386enh] section:
MaxPhysPage=40000
This limits the amount of physical RAM that Windows can access to 1 GB. For more information on using MaxPhysPage, look at Specifying Amount of RAM Available to Windows Using MaxPhysPage.
And I know it's not real useful to you any more, but it's worth throwing out here for the other people who may get stuck the same way.
