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ellen - 16 Apr 2004 17:26 GMT

MY system tells me the HIMEM file is missing and I get a
VFAT halt. I have tried running scandisk c: and it says
everything is fine. I have tried loading windows bootdisk.
It will go to through like it is going to load windows and
then go the the VFAT halt system. I thought I could reload
win 95 but it says theres not enough memory. How can I
open up some memory??
Please Help!!
THANKS!!
Ellen

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Ben Myers - 16 Apr 2004 22:34 GMT

Make sure the computer has a valid "c:\msdos.sys" file,
something like this:

[Paths]
WinDir=C:\WINDOWS
WinBootDir=C:\WINDOWS
HostWinBootDrv=C
[Options]
BootGUI=1
;end

Ben

> MY system tells me the HIMEM file is missing and I get a
> VFAT halt. I have tried running scandisk c: and it says
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> THANKS!!
> Ellen

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cquirke (MVP Win9x) - 17 Apr 2004 01:34 GMT

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:26:36 -0700, "ellen"

>MY system tells me the HIMEM file is missing and I get a
>VFAT halt.

If HiMem.sys can't load, the system cannot access RAM over 1M.
If that happens, Windows can't load.

So the next questrion is: Why can't HiMem.sys load?

If the Path info in C:\Winboot.ini and/or C:\MSDOS.SYS [Paths] is
missing or wrong, HiMem.sys can't be found.

If the Windows dir is botched to that HiMem.sys is missing (or the
file is corrupted or wrong version) it can't load.

If HiMem.sys finds bad RAM (normally the testing of RAM is disabled
except in Safe Mode) it will unload, and then so on.

So the next thing I'd do is check the system's RAM using free testers
from www.memtest86.com and www.simmtester.com, then see what the
Windows directory and HiMem.sys look like.

Also, check that C:\Config.sys doesn't point to a bad HiMem.sys or
otherwise conflict with the usual autoloading of the correct one. For
e.g., if there's a DOS=NoAuto setting that suppresses the autoloading
of HiMem.sys, you'd have to add an explicit line to do this.

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