i just installed 768 mb of memory,now im getting windows protection error

[Rwest75]

iam running win 98 on my computer using a gigabyte ga 7IXE motherboard and an AMD athlon 750 socketA. when i am able to start up i get PROTECTION ERROR box and the only thing it says is error 15. also some of the applications that start up with my computer cause illegal opperation and will be shut down messages.&quot;details Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module <unknown> at 0000:000086a2
Registers:
EAX=1d17ffff cs=2037 EIP=000086a2 EFLGS=00000286
EBX=000010c8 ss=2037 ESP=00008664 EBP+0000889a
ECX=1d17ffff DS=05cf ESI=0000869b FS-1def
Bytes at CS:EIP:

Stack dump:
and a whole lot of numbers you get the idea
then when i close it nothing loads
iam getting bsod:
&quot;a fatal exception 0d has occurred at 17B00006195.&quot; or
&quot;a fatal exception 0e has occurred at 0617:BFF7D798.&quot; or
&quot;a fatal exception 0E has occurred at 017f:BFF9Dfff.
i probably get more the last one happened when i chose normal mode when given a prompt to start in safe mode
i bough the memory online from www.upgradeplanet.com its generic but it said it was tested and passed with my motherboard and a athlon 600 socket A
the memory is part number pc133256mb 32mx4. here is the web address for that pdf file that said it passed with my motherboard http://www.syncmax.com/PDF/TN001025_256_32Mx4_compatible.pdf

does anybody have a know what is going on here? please help.
Thank you

 

[Rwest75]

im in safe mode again and it just gave me a white box that says MMtask caused a general protection fault in module USER.EXE at 0003:0006fdb......just more info incase it will help with determining a possible solution
thanks

 

[Rwest75]

this crap is really starting to piss me off now. im about ready to box it up and ship it back

 

[Orange Kid]

sounds like a stick of bad memory
try one stick at a time--if you get the same errors on a stick, its bad memory-- time to return it if you can.
if one stick at a time works then try one stick in one of the slots moving it each time to a different slot <does this make sense?>----could be a bad memory slot.

best case senario is that the memeory just isn't seated properly

good luck

 

[Rwest75]

i had 3 128 pc 100 in each slot and it worked fine so i dont think it is a bad memory slot. also my wife is having the same problem. she has the same board and processor as i do but where our systems differ is sound card, video card and hard drive and cd rw/ cd rom and she is running WIN ME. also she jsut took out her pc133 256 and reinstalled her old memory. she is now having the same problem she had with this new memory

 

[esung]

have you tried it with just that stick of RAM? 32Mx4 is a very unual organization of RAM though.. even though they said it works, I'm not sure if you can mix an match with other organization of RAM... better check your MB documents.

 

[han888]

the problem is win98 can not handle that much memory, it's happen to me too

 

[AndyHui]

Win98 cannot handle more than 512MB of RAM without needing to make adjustments to the vcache. Only problem is that I can't remember what to change....

 

[Rwest75]

my wife tried it with two sticks of ram , akso we arent mixing any memory. all memory is the same we bought the limit (5 sticks) and were going to buy another but if we cant get this to work than its going back. also somebody said that Win 98 has a problem with anything over 512mb does anybody know how to configure Win 98 and Win ME for more than 512mb?

 

[OracleOfDelphi]

Here is the link to Microsoft's Site that explains what you need to do.

How to configure Windows 9x with more than 512MB of memory