SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP7452 PART NUMBER: N/A FILE NAME: N/A TITLE: Presario Specific Models Fix for Japanese NTKERN Error with 64 MB RAM VERSION: 1.00 Rev A LANGUAGE: Japanese CATEGORY: Fix DIVISIONS: Consumer PRODUCTS AFFECTED: ONLY Compaq Presario 4640, 4660, 5010, 5030, 5110, 5130 with Japanese Windows 95 and EXACTLY 64 MB of memory (RAM) OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows 95 (Japanese) SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: Exactly 64 MB RAM installed PREREQUISITES: N/A EFFECTIVE DATE: June 10, 1998 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 2.X SUPERSEDES: N/A DESCRIPTION: This SoftPaq is for Japanese products, and cannot be run in United States mode. It creates a bootable diskette with an update that prevents a potential memory conflict in Microsoft Windows 95 that can cause the specific Presario models mentioned above with exactly 64 MB of RAM to lock up due to a Windows 95 protection error in NTKERN during system start-up. If you are experiencing this problem, apply this update. The update limits the amount of hard disk cache used by Windows 95 by setting MaxFileCache=6000 in the [vcache] section of SYSTEM.INI. The README.TXT file on the diskette contains update instructions. HOW TO USE: 1. Obtain a formatted 1.44-MB diskette. 2. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change to that directory. The file that is downloaded is an executable with a filename based on the SoftPaq Number above. 3. From that drive and directory, execute the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions. You will be prompted to insert the formatted diskette in a drive to create the diskettes. 4. After the diskette has been created, you may delete the SoftPaq file downloaded in step 2. 5. For installation instructions, run README on the created diskette. Copyright 1998, Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.