Babs, I am wondering how using a LARGE ram disk would work - one (or two) that eat up the 512 Megs of ram would be what I would need, to eliminate the excess ram being available.
This was another idea I had but not sure if it would work either. Then, if it would do the trick, the problem comes of finding a program which would eat up that amount of ram, to do the job. As far as moderation, generally Marlene does not get directly involved unless there is some over riding reason for her to do so - things getting out of hand on select subject would seem to be the type of situation where that would be the issue. So would seem the issue with your getting messages back would be more related to issues with your ISP rather than the list itself. Thanks, Ralph BubblyBabs wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "rb47" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:11 PM > Subject: Re: PCWorks: Anyway of limiting memory with dos command (EMM386and > similar)??? > > > Jorge, > > > > That will not work, as it seems, a number of other things that are > > supposed to work do not, including all the stuff from the MS support > > area. > > > > The problem I am running into is that my current system has 512 Megs of > > ram - BUT what I am trying to do is add another 512 Megs of ram for use > > by my WinXP operations. > > > > The problem comes with Win98, which I need for various operations as > > well - IF you add the additional 512 Megs of ram, for a total of 1 Gig, > > Win98 will not operate or properly. > > > > Unfortunately, trying all the tricks shown on MS's web site, for > > limiting things in the system.ini file, with entries in [386Emm] and > > [vcache], resulted in total disaster, including one situation that > > required my reinstalling the whole OS from scratch. > > > > This also included doing as you sugguested - running msconfig and under > > advanced, setting the max memory that Win98 was to use. It does not work > > when the system has more than 512 Megs of ram it would seem from what I > > found. > > > > Since the sugguestions directly involving Win98 do not seem to work, the > > reason for my asking if anyone has found a way by use of a memory > > manager, such as EMM386, or similiar, to limit the amount of memory at > > the DOS level that the system will actually be seeing for DOS and Win98. > > > > And if that is possible, then what parm(s)f and values would be used to > > exlude all ram above 512 Megs. > > > > Ralph > > Any chance of using a RAM disk to use up a bunch of the memory? Would that work? > Babs > > PS. Is this list moderated? Sometimes my replies take a day or so to come through > (or not at all)... ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
