The operation was a success...
Aug. 29th, 2004 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanju...and the patient is better than ever!
I successfully installed 1GB of RAM in my computer, as well as a new ATI Radeon graphics card with 128 MB of memory. That's a quadrupling of system RAM and a graphics card which now has half the memory on a single card that my entire computer had until yesterday. All on a system still running Win98SE, no less!
I'd originally bought 2 1GB memory cards, but though the tweaks I discovered online for allowing Win98 to handle more than 512MBs of ram worked okay for 1GB, I could not for the life of me get it to run with 2GB. The memory test went fine, but when the system tried to load the OS, I got an "insufficient memory" error and the system shut down. Supposedly the change I made to the system.ini file (limited the maximum size of the virtual memory cache) should have handled that, but it didn't. It lets me run 1GB, but not 2GB of RAM.
So I returned the 2-card package to Fry's yesterday, got a credit voucher, and then bought one 1GB memory card and a new graphics card. Which, frankly, will probably do more to improve my gaming experience than 2GB of memory anyhow.
None of this will make me a better Battlefield 1942 player, but at least the graphics will load faster and look better while I getting my ass handed to me....
I successfully installed 1GB of RAM in my computer, as well as a new ATI Radeon graphics card with 128 MB of memory. That's a quadrupling of system RAM and a graphics card which now has half the memory on a single card that my entire computer had until yesterday. All on a system still running Win98SE, no less!
I'd originally bought 2 1GB memory cards, but though the tweaks I discovered online for allowing Win98 to handle more than 512MBs of ram worked okay for 1GB, I could not for the life of me get it to run with 2GB. The memory test went fine, but when the system tried to load the OS, I got an "insufficient memory" error and the system shut down. Supposedly the change I made to the system.ini file (limited the maximum size of the virtual memory cache) should have handled that, but it didn't. It lets me run 1GB, but not 2GB of RAM.
So I returned the 2-card package to Fry's yesterday, got a credit voucher, and then bought one 1GB memory card and a new graphics card. Which, frankly, will probably do more to improve my gaming experience than 2GB of memory anyhow.
None of this will make me a better Battlefield 1942 player, but at least the graphics will load faster and look better while I getting my ass handed to me....
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Date: 2004-08-29 07:31 pm (UTC)Sorry, guess I'm in that kinda mood today.....
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