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Win 98 and memory
28-03-2008 8:56 PM
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Chaps
Just wondered if anyone could refresh my memory
My uncles has a very old packard bell PC running Win98. He never wants to use the internet, but his grandkids have some CD games that play very slowly. After having a look, he only has 32Mb memory, but 4Mb is used by the VGA chip. The memory is SIMM (yes SIMM), and I have managed to find some on E-Bay, 2 matched 64Mb sticks. Did hear somewhere though that Win98 does not like more than 128Mb memory, but its that long since I have worked on a Win 98 system, I am not sure. Can anyone remind me????. If it will use 160Mb total then I will get the memory for him.
Just wondered if anyone could refresh my memory
My uncles has a very old packard bell PC running Win98. He never wants to use the internet, but his grandkids have some CD games that play very slowly. After having a look, he only has 32Mb memory, but 4Mb is used by the VGA chip. The memory is SIMM (yes SIMM), and I have managed to find some on E-Bay, 2 matched 64Mb sticks. Did hear somewhere though that Win98 does not like more than 128Mb memory, but its that long since I have worked on a Win 98 system, I am not sure. Can anyone remind me????. If it will use 160Mb total then I will get the memory for him.
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Re: Win 98 and memory
28-03-2008 9:04 PM
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28-03-2008 9:09 PM
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not sure how much help this but looking back at my computer parts receipts I find that in 2002 I built a new PC and I am fairly sure it ran on Windows 98SE and it had a single 256MB 184DIMM PC2100 stick and a Radeon7500 64MB AGP graphics card
Re: Win 98 and memory
28-03-2008 9:10 PM
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Thanks Guys. SOme interesting bedtime reading Paul, will stretch my grey matter in things I have forgotton all about!!!
Re: Win 98 and memory
29-03-2008 11:30 PM
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You have to remember that win 98 came out when 32 meg was a fantastic amount of memory and you were posh if you had 32 meg most pc shipped with 16 meg or less. Video cards were in the region of 512 meg and hard drives 50 meg or so.
So you shouldn't need to throw loads of stuff at it to make it go fast. If you giving it more ram etc then put win2k on as you will see the benefit that shipped with 64 meg or less and a lot more stable and drivers are available for it. You could put windows 3.11 or OS/2 on and see it fly
So you shouldn't need to throw loads of stuff at it to make it go fast. If you giving it more ram etc then put win2k on as you will see the benefit that shipped with 64 meg or less and a lot more stable and drivers are available for it. You could put windows 3.11 or OS/2 on and see it fly
Re: Win 98 and memory
29-03-2008 11:58 PM
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Even further back, my first PC, a Packard Bell is I remember correct only had a 25M hard disc, that was enough to run windows and programs that a proper PC in a Horizontal Tower size case
Re: Win 98 and memory
30-03-2008 9:10 PM
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Yeah, this is a packard bell Club. 1Gb HDD. Just seems to need a touch more memory and a reinstall to clear out the rubbish!!. Even has a pentium socket 7 processor, running at 233Mhz. Oh the days
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