Insufficiant Extended Memory 1

[francoislaroche]

I get the following message on a computer with Windows 98 on it upon booting:

Mémoire étendue insuffisante

I have a French version of Windows.

This message could be translated to about Insufficiant Extended Memory, but I'm not 100% sure about the Extended term.

Anyway, this happens while the computer is booting, before entering Windows (still in DOS). It also says to press a key to continue, and when you press a key, it just reboots again, and the cycle goes on and on.

Any suggestion anybody?

 

[francoislaroche]

grygst: There are 2 ramdrive.sys files on the computer, one in c:\windows and one in c:\windows\command\ebd. I got it using the dir ramdrive.sys /s command.

Mac: You seem to know a lot of stuff, but I think I'm gonna need more specific informations about all that.

First, I can remove the /TESTMEM:ON part from the DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS command, since it does it anyway. Right?

I tried something with EMM386.EXE NOEMS before, and it didn't work.

You suggest to add the following lines in the config.sys:

DEVICE =C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
DOS=HIGH, UMB

Can I add those line anywhere, or do they have to be at the beginning, or after the HIMEM.SYS line or what?

I tried the mem /c | more command. Here's the result:

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Modules utilisant la mémoire sous 1 Mo:

Nom Total Conventionnel Mémoire haute
MSDOS 70448 (69K) 70448 (69K) 0 (0K)
HIMEM 1168 (1K) 1168 (1K) 0 (0K)
DISPLAY 8304 (8K) 8304 (8K) 0 (0K)
CWDINIT 1104 (1K) 1104 (1K) 0 (0K)
VIDE-CDD 5024 (5K) 5024 (5K) 0 (0K)
DBLBUFF 2976 (3K) 2976 (3K) 0 (0K)
IFSHLP 2864 (3K) 2864 (3K) 0 (0K)
COMMAND 11280 (11K) 11280 (11K) 0 (0K)
LIBRE 550032 (537K) 550032 (537K) 0 (0K)

Résumé mémoire:

Type de mémoire Totale Utilisée Libre
Conventionnelle 653312 103280 550032
Supérieure 0 0 0
Réservée 0 0 0
Étendue 65994752 69632 65925120
--------------- -------- -------- --------
Mémoire totale 66648064 172912 66475152
Total inférieur 653312 103280 550032

Taille maximale du programme exécutable 550 016 (537K)
Taille max. de la mémoire supérieure libre 0 (0K)
MS-DOS réside en mémoire haute (HMA).

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When I try emm386, I get a message saying the emm386 drive is not installed (I guess I have to add the line to my config.sys and reboot first?)

Next, you talk about Scanreg. When I went in step by step, he never tried to run the scanreg program. When I'm able to boot normally after a boot in safe mode, the system shut down perfectly. I don't really see what or how the registry could become broken. Anyway, looking at the mem result, I have more than 340K of free conventional memory (about 550K). But, this would be less than the 580 you mention. How do I "optimize" my free conventional memory so that I can test that?

I read the article in your link, and it doesn't provide much information you didn't already tell.

Anyway, all in all, you give me lots of theoric knowledge, but not much direct solutions. Can you just give me some commands to try and things to type on the computer. I really don't have much knowledge with all that stuff. Generally, when such a problem happens, I just format the whole thing and reinstall from nothing, but I'd like to know how to correct this problem without doing all that.

 

[Guest_imported]

Bon Jour.!........Methinks you have enough conventional and extended mem. by the look of your returns.Unless you are going to run an "Old Dos" game which requires >600k.....The fact that "Safe" boot works would indicate that something is causing a problem while starting in normal mode.Perhaps the question which should have been asked first was (!),,What system/pc...etc. are you running.(2)Assuming it was working fine,what if anything do you remember doing "prior" to the "Mem." problem.??..Eg..did you add any hardware/software...uninstall any sofware...etc....Was it raining out.?(Just kidding.)...This problem is not unusual on some systems/laptops...or ones running certain software.Some foreign language(Europe) Windows systems have this problem,.but not the "French" version,as far as I know.And I don't really know "Diddley"
So to start at "Ground" zero....EMM386.exe Forget it.!(It MUST come after HIMEM.SYS).BUT DO NOT USE IT .!!


Use......C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
And....DOS = HIGH

And whatever Device drivers you require.(MINIMUM.!)
Check for hardware conflicts in Device Manager.

If you think the registry is all right.Here is another link which describes the same problem with "duplicates" in the system.ini ..Maybe best to copy it and paste into the URL thing.

http://support.microsoft.com/search...430&iterationID=1&sessionID=anonymous|9180378

This is Microsofts Tech.Area base .

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