Installing Win95 on a new machine

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  1. campbuds

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    I want to install windows 95 on my current XP machine on a separate hard drive so I can play some of my old windows 95/DOS based games that just won't work in XP.

    After I got windows 95 installed it rebooted and then the boot screen came up and then right to an error message saying I have insufficient memory and that the system has been halted.

    Now I know I have more memory on my system than 95 will use. So I am guessing it is a hardware compatibility problem with windows 95. Can someone help me out on this?

    Asus A7N8X MB
    1gig pc2700
    Geforce 128ddr video
     
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    Yep......

    Windows 95 maxes out at 512MB of ram.....you'll have to pull one of your 512 sticks out. If you're using a single 1G, well....you get the idea!

    :)
     
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    I did try pulling out a stick of ram, but unfortunately that did not solve the problem. I still got the same screen
     
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    win95 maxes out at about 300mhz. try the software compatibilty wizard to run those programs
     
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    I tried the software compatibility wizard to no avail.

    One of the games it the original NFS.
     
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    For the original NFS, the cd came with both DOS and Windows 95 versions. The DOS version works in the DOSBox emulator. DOSBox emulates a DOS PC complete with sound card. That's what I use for most older DOS games these days, though I still have a 486 and Pentium 100mhz for the very few problem DOS games I can't get working with DOSBox.

    http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
     
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    Far as I know...there really isn't one. But some of the older OSes and their respective programs may have a problem with a faster CPU...I've installed Windows 95 on an AMD XP 1800+ (1.5GHz) with 256MB of ram, but the problem may lie in the fact that using 512 is the max....remember, that also needs to include the virtual memory.

    Try using a 256 stick if you can find one.

    So far, the record (remembering back a year or two) is 53 operating systems on one computer (DOS environments made up the majority)...Windows 1.0 thru all versions of XP, Linux distros...all on a machine running at or above 1GHz.
     
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    Thanks for the info on Dosbox. I will need to give that a shot and see how well it works.
     
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    ran into that problem when upgrading cpu to 400mhz when i was using win95, had to upgrade to win98.
     
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    You can try doing this to limit the memory that Windows 95 sees:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184447

    Add the following line in the [386Enh] section of the System.ini
    MaxPhysPage=30000


    ddp, I ran into the same issue years ago. There was a timing bug when using AMD K6 processors. There was a patch that you could run to correct it. It wasn't that 95 wouldn't support higher frequencies, since it would work fine with Intel chips.
     
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    Duh....totally forgot about the K6 issue...since I was using the K7.
     
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