Conventional Memory?

[Quench]

Hello,

I just recently downgraded from winXP to win98. I had just bought and installed a soyo mb with raid enabled and had a little bit of trouble getting it to work with XP. So now just for tests and stuff I went back to 98. But whenver I try to upgrade to 98SE, I get a message telling me to free up some conventional memory on my harddrives. I get a similar message when I try to run scandisk as well. Im sure its the same with many other programs. Anyone have any idea what the prob is? Im running two 80gb maxtor hd's on raid 0 which seems to be working nice. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Quench

 

[earthman]

Conventional memory is mapped out in RAM, it has nothing to do with your hard drives.
If you are using Win98 with more than 512 MB this is a common error. Try tweaking your MaxFileCacheSize settings to eliminate this error.

 

[Quench]

Yea, I have 512 DDR PC2100 ram in my pc.

Im pretty bad when it comes to computers...could u possible tell me where to edit my MaxFileCacheSize?

Thanks for the info

 

[earthman]

Read here:

Out of memory errors


I hope this helps.

 

[Quench]

Naw - none of that worked.

Ill hold off on that for now. I got one other problem im trying to get solved and I havent had any luck yet.

Im trying to install a 3rd hd just for storage purposes. When I had xp up and running with RAID, my pc automatically detected the 3rd harddrive and I was able to access it in windows without a problem. But now when I put the 3rd hd in, I look in 'My Computer', and the drive is not there. Even though I see it in my bios... Would you happen to know any solution?

 

[Calin]

Probably is NTFS file system on it. You can see that in WinXP, in Control Panel, Administratoive tasks, somewhere is Disk administrator. Select the third drive and see it's partitions and properties.
You can use (read-only) NTFS "drivers" for Windows 9x. The read-only versions are free, the read/write are on money.

Calin

 

[earthman]

Sorry that didn't help. Another possibility is you have a program or utility running in the background with a memory leak.

 

[Quench]

Yea - I thought of that, so I unchecked everything in my msconfig > startup but It still didnt work.

Its all good though. I managed to get XP installed again, so now all my problems are solved.

Thanks again for your help.