Your main issue is that Win 98 and ME don't like that much memory, why win2k is having issues I don't know. Shawn wrote: > > Okay, I know this isn't exactly the place for this but I gotta vent... > > A couple of weeks ago, I thought I'd do something good and add some RAM > to my Athlon box (1GHz processor, Biostar MK7VB board, 256MB ram in it > already, 45 GB disk, 250W power supply), and upgrade the power supply to > support the cooling fans I bought. So... at $30 a simm for 256MB > Micron memory, I bought two and also a 300W ps. The RAM I bought is > Micron PC133 256MB sticks, which matches what's in there already. > > I put them in, so now I'm totalling 768MB ram and the friggin' box > pukes... Win98se has no clue what to do with that much ram. It goes > into BSOD's and other glorious things. I reload, and reseat the simms. > Win98se locks up still, no BSOD's. Winme same thing. About the > closest that I can get to good gaming performance is in Win2k on "some" > games. 3D games lock up, won't install, don't display properly, etc. > Basically, it can't swallow the pill and be bigger and beefier. > > Then, I find out that there's major incompatibility issues between the > video card and the Via chipset (Annihalator 2/geforce2 card and VIA > KT133 chipset). Creative won't acknowledge this, and refuses to send me > the info I'm requesting, yet it's on their readme.txt that I have yet to > find on my system. I've got the latest bios upgrade, 4 in 1 drivers for > VIA, video and sound drivers. At best I can get some Win games that > don't lock up. the RAM seems good, it' counts and linux even sees it > and recognizes all of it. > > Good news is that Linux (Slack 8) just kept on ticking even with a > smaller than supposed to be swap file (128MB). Didn't even hiccup. I'd > go entirely Linux, but I gotta have my Evercrack.... Other than that, > I'm pure Linux. Now to try my Linux games once I get it installed again. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list