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himem.sys error with WIN98 startup disk
Am attemping to install Win98 on older PC using a win98 bootdisk and WIN98
CD. Have 96 KB memory; loading as 640K base and rest extended. Setup goes through scandisk and then I'm receiving the following error: "standard mode cannot run because of a problem with your extended memory manager. Try reconfiguring your memory manager, or replacing it with HIMEM.SYS. If you are using HIMEM.SYS, you need to reconfiugure it or obtain a newer version." I've checked config.sys on bootdisk. It does contain the DEVICE=himem.sys line. What next? |
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"ssb" wrote in message
... Am attemping to install Win98 on older PC using a win98 bootdisk and WIN98 CD. Have 96 KB memory; loading as 640K base and rest extended. Setup goes through scandisk and then I'm receiving the following error: "standard mode cannot run because of a problem with your extended memory manager. Try reconfiguring your memory manager, or replacing it with HIMEM.SYS. If you are using HIMEM.SYS, you need to reconfiugure it or obtain a newer version." I've checked config.sys on bootdisk. It does contain the DEVICE=himem.sys line. This instruction requires that HIMEM.SYS be on A: Is it? Corruption of C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS may be the commonest cause of faillure to boot from the hard drive, easiest remedied by having a spare copy on a write-protected boot floppy, ready to copy over. But you probably have backups in C:\Windows\Command or in your EBD folder. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Try creating a new boot disk.
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm Ben "ssb" wrote in message = ... Am attemping to install Win98 on older PC using a win98 bootdisk and = WIN98=20 CD. Have 96 KB memory; loading as 640K base and rest extended. Setup = goes=20 through scandisk and then I'm receiving the following error: = "standard mode=20 cannot run because of a problem with your extended memory manager. = Try=20 reconfiguring your memory manager, or replacing it with HIMEM.SYS. If = you=20 are using HIMEM.SYS, you need to reconfiugure it or obtain a newer = version." =20 I've checked config.sys on bootdisk. It does contain the = DEVICE=3Dhimem.sys=20 line. =20 What next? |
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Create a bootdisk by inserting the Windows CD in any computer running Windows (such
as a friend's or one at the library), cancel setup if it starts, then browse the CD to the \tools\mtsutil\fat32ebd folder, and double-click the file namedfat32ebd.exe, and follow the prompts. Use the boot diskette it creates to boot your computer, and format the hard drive using the command: format c: Don't use the /s switch if you are installing from the CD. Post back if you still get errors. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "ssb" wrote in message ... Am attemping to install Win98 on older PC using a win98 bootdisk and WIN98 CD. Have 96 KB memory; loading as 640K base and rest extended. Setup goes through scandisk and then I'm receiving the following error: "standard mode cannot run because of a problem with your extended memory manager. Try reconfiguring your memory manager, or replacing it with HIMEM.SYS. If you are using HIMEM.SYS, you need to reconfiugure it or obtain a newer version." I've checked config.sys on bootdisk. It does contain the DEVICE=himem.sys line. What next? |
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Created, booted from the fat32ebd disk; formatted c:. Got the following
error when tried to install Windows 98SE: Standard Mode: Unkown stack in fault dispatcher Fault: 0044 Stack Dump 1163 1E30 0053 "glee" wrote: Create a bootdisk by inserting the Windows CD in any computer running Windows (such as a friend's or one at the library), cancel setup if it starts, then browse the CD to the \tools\mtsutil\fat32ebd folder, and double-click the file namedfat32ebd.exe, and follow the prompts. Use the boot diskette it creates to boot your computer, and format the hard drive using the command: format c: Don't use the /s switch if you are installing from the CD. Post back if you still get errors. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "ssb" wrote in message ... Am attemping to install Win98 on older PC using a win98 bootdisk and WIN98 CD. Have 96 KB memory; loading as 640K base and rest extended. Setup goes through scandisk and then I'm receiving the following error: "standard mode cannot run because of a problem with your extended memory manager. Try reconfiguring your memory manager, or replacing it with HIMEM.SYS. If you are using HIMEM.SYS, you need to reconfiugure it or obtain a newer version." I've checked config.sys on bootdisk. It does contain the DEVICE=himem.sys line. What next? |
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