You need to edit the system.ini file from DOS (or reduce the RAM count
initially to 512MB) -

add the line
MaxFileCache=512000
to the [vcache] section
and the line
MaxPhysPage= 20000
to the [386Enh] section

once the system is up and running, you can try increasing the MaxPhysPage
size - but I doubt that you'll get any higher than 40000 (1GB of RAM
available)

HTH

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"jeffareid" wrote in message
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I'm trying to install windows on a newer system. I boot from the Windows
ME
floppy disk, run setup from the cd-rom, but once the system reboots, it
just
keeps rebooting, even when in safe mode, or if I choose step by step and
entery no to all questions. I see there's something about AGP video cards,
but this requires me to run regedit, which I can't do since I can't get
Windows ME to start up in safe mode.

My hardwa

Intel 875 motherboard
Intel P4EE 3.4GHZ cpu
2GB Patriot 2-2-2-5 DDRAM
ATI Radeon X850 AGP video card
1 IDE hard drive, 30GB FAT 32 partition cleanly formated during install
1 HP dvd60i dvd-writer - cd-rom drive