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Maximum RAM compatibility with VIA cyrix 600MHz proccessor?

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:40 am
by devanshgaur
I wonder that whether my cyrix proccessor can support the RAM over 512 MB or not.
Please guide me about that (anyone!).

Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:28 pm
by KachiWachi
CPU's don't provide RAM support.

System chipsets do.

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

Thanks.

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:02 pm
by edwin
when using more than 512MB you can't use windows 95/98/Me BTW.

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:16 pm
by Denniss
edwin wrote: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.

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:00 pm
by 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.

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:54 pm
by Denniss
edwin wrote: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)

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:32 pm
by 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.