I’m working at recycling old computers and giving them to charities, and have always used thes lines :
HIMEM.SYS to enable access to extended memory and load DOS into high memory;
EMM.386.EXE, To enable expanded memory and to use upper memory as though it was conventional memory.
HIGH,UMB ; to load as much of DOS into high memory.
It’s not a huge problem, I want these pentium 2’s to work as well as possible, and i know that only HIMEN.SYS is required for Win 98 , but if some one could give me some advice as to whether what I’ve written into config.sys as being appropriate I’d be much appreciated.
I’ve looked around microsoft knowledge base and the net, and done a search here…and dug up my notes from school.
Thanks !
Line (XX) > [b]" ...is corrupt or cannot be found "[/b]
(Thanks for your interest , any info. will be helpful )
DEVICE=C:\[b]DOS[/b]\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:[b]\DOS[/b]\EMM386.EXE
DOS=HIGH,UMB
I changed the lines 1 & 2 ; which the errors refered to ; to windows.
DEVICE=C:\[b]WINDOWS[/b]\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\[b]WINDOWS\[/b]EMM386.EXE
DOS=HIGH,UMB
This fixed the problem as the files are in Windows , not DOS. I was stepping too far back , Win 3.1/ 95 maybe . :-[ Silly me : Starfighter:
As I can see starfighter,( and thanks for posting ) ;
Your strings show "Windows" ,which is where I went wrong. [b]NOEMS[/b] : refers to No " Extended/Expanded/upper " memory. It's not crucial , Win98 will boot with just HIMEM.SYS but I want to utilise memory as best as possible.
[b]Tech[/b] , as always your really helpful , thanks!
I'm not sure what your config.sys is trying to do , quite a lot it seems ;D I'll study this and see if there's some useful/juicy commands in there. From a glance it seems to be Finding/loading the CD Rom drive : "device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 " , and might be from the the initial installation process.
I know this is almost primeval technology, ;) but with so many old computers being thrown into rubbish dumps i feel it's important to utilise these dinosaurs , and people without the money can have access to the Internet, or at least a Computer of some kind.
Thanks for your help guy's.