Maximum RAM compatibility with VIA cyrix 600MHz proccessor?

[devanshgaur]

I wonder that whether my cyrix proccessor can support the RAM over 512 MB or not.
Please guide me about that (anyone!).

[KachiWachi]

CPU's don't provide RAM support.

System chipsets do.

What is the make/model of your motherboard (or PC)?

Thanks.

[edwin]

when using more than 512MB you can't use windows 95/98/Me BTW.

[Denniss]

when using more than 512MB you can't use windows 95/98/Me BTW.

Nope, thats wrong. You often can't install with 1GB+ but with some tweaks you are able to use at least 1GB afterwards.

[edwin]

Every install that was used with >512MB eventually crashed with a strange error message and had to be restored from an image to get it going again. Maybe you can run it on >512 but not in a production environment.

[Denniss]

Every install that was used with >512MB eventually crashed with a strange error message and had to be restored from an image to get it going again. Maybe you can run it on >512 but not in a production environment.

What was the error message ?
Tried to use the MaxFileCach entry in system.ini ?
768MB is always safe to use with maxfilechace, all above might be tricky if some components maps soe adresses in the area just below 1GB (ia have a WLAN-adapter that was tricky with 1GB but with 768MB all OK as with 1GB limited to 950MB)

[edwin]

registry corruption. I suspect one of the older apps was misbehaving. I don't know, never documented it really and simply kicked out any 9x/Me install. They were migrating anyway.