At 10:49 AM 3/12/02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following:

>I found out the hard way myself - Win98 can ONLY handle a maximum of 512
>Megs. I tried installing more and got some VERY weird issues/problems
>happen on my system. Once I went back to only 512 Megs, all the problems
>disappeared.
>
>Seems each version of Windows has increased the amount of ram that the
>system can use and handle, but with regard to 98, it seems to be a limit of
>512 Megs.

It seems that 512MB is the limit. I finally found an MS document to confirm 
this for Win 95/98/ME/SE
"Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed (Q253912)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q253912

Win XP 32-bit appears to be 768MB (I haven't found an MS article)

Win XP Professional and Advanced Server 64-bit is 16GB
Memory Limitations of 64-bit Versions of Windows XP (Q283247)
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q283247

Win NT/2000 is 4GB
Windows NT Only Recognizes up to 64 MB RAM on Some Computers (Q117373)
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q117373
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Gerry Boyd
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