[Gllug] Does anyone remember W98?

[Tom Schutzer-Weissmann]

On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 15:51 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> I'm in the happy position of having been dumped with a PC owned by a 
> friend in the hope that I will be able to fix it.  It seems to be the 
> usual problem of bit-rot - the hardware is fine but W98 is unhappy.
> 
> One oddity though - when I ask W98 what it thinks of the hardware it 
> says there is only 64M of RAM.  The BIOS and Ubuntu both think there is 
> 192M.  Was W98 restricted to 64M of RAM?

No, although apparently there was an option to do so - I found this on
google:

> One other thing though, go to Start, Run, enter msconfig and click 
> OK.  Then click on Advanced button.  Scroll down the list and see if 
> the item "Limit Memory to" is checked.  Uncheck it and reboot.
> 
Any use?

TomSW


	
	
		
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