Please help - i bought new components & got them together using my HDD that's working Win98 OS, now when i turn it on, the message i get is: Quit one or more memory resident or remove unnecessary utilitties from CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT

Jnr IT Technician

You're an IT tech? Did you do as the error message said & edit the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files?

What exactly were the 'new components'?

it was Intel D954GCNL M/board and 1ghz memory and a new case

Jnr IT Technician

Yes i did but it could not pass that stage even if try and change the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT

Jnr IT Technician

So, you are recycling a harddrive onto a new MBoard with 1GB of RAM.

Number of issues here. First off, Win98 can't configure over 512GB of RAM without some modifications. Second, your components are all different than what is configured in Win98.

I couldn't find a listing at Intel's site for that MBoard. If this is a 2 or four core processor then I doubt Win98 will run on it at all.

Check to see if there are any Win98 drivers for the MBoard chipset and for the other intgrated hardware.

Yeah the memory problems are probably due to the 1 gig of ram. Unless properly tweaked, the more ram you install above about 512, the less of it 98 can use. You should probably drop the ram temporarily to no more than 512 until you get it running.

There will also be a problem when 98 sees the new motherboard. Check my #2 here:

http://www.computing.net/hardware/w...

I mentioned copying the cab files to the hard drive before swapping out the motherboard. Since you've already installed the new board you can copy the cab files after booting from a 98 bootdisk. At the a:\> prompt after booting from the bootdisk type:

md c:\win98 and enter.

Then with the 98 cd in the cdrom type:

copy X:\win98\*.* c:\win98 and enter.

where X: is the drive letter given the cdrom by the bootdisk. With one hard drive it'll usually be D: or E:, depending on whether or not the bootdisk creates a ram drive.

Tweaking the ram setting is more art than science so opinions can vary. You might want to take a look at these screenshots:

http://members.driverguide.com/driv...

When you download from driverguide it's easier to use the 'view a series of ads' option instead of registering with them. Registering will limit your downloads. It's a series of about 6 or 7 ads. At the bottom of each ad you can click 'no thanks' or 'continue' or whatever it takes to get to the next one. It'll only take about a minute.

Shout back if (in the long term) you want to tweak system.ini so that the machine can use 1G of RAM. It is only the cache you reduce - it will still be able to access all of the RAM.

some other bloke...

Hey My coputer keeps reading:
Problem running Windows 98 your computer will restart and fix the error now.
then it gives me a Message
Cannot run progam RUNDELL.exe and Cannot Run program or Cannot Find program Windows/rppt.dll or something like that what do I do!

DMB-AOP

Dave, the first thing you do is start your own thread here in this same forum. Piggybacking on an old thread isn't going to get you anywhere.