Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!laih From: LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Hubert Lai) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Help: HIMEM.SYS problem ! Message-ID: <90266.233757LAIH@QUCDN.BITNET> Date: 24 Sep 90 03:37:57 GMT References: <6417@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> Organization: Queen's University at Kingston Lines: 43 Hi. I tried to send you my suggestions to your problem via email, but it got bounced back to me, so I'm posting here for all to read. I hope no one minds. Here is the message... ========================================================================= Received: by QUCDN (Mailer R2.07+QK) id 9785; Sun, 23 Sep 90 16:40:19 EDT Date: Sun, 23 Sep 90 16:40:18 EDT From: Network Mailer Subject: Undelivered mail To: LAIH@QUCDN Your mail was not delivered to some or all of its intended recipients for the following reason(s): Message syntax is unrecognizable. --------------------RETURNED MAIL FILE-------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 1990 16:33 EDT From: Hubert Lai To: joshua@wolfen.cc.uow.oz Subject: Re: Help: HIMEM.SYS problem ! Since you have a 286 and not a 386, you will not be able to run in 386 enhanced mode, obviously. To run in standard mode HIMEM.SYS must be functioning and you must have at least 384K of free extended RAM, on top of your 640K base RAM. You are probably already aware of all this. Three potential problems leap to mind wrt your configuration: 1) Are you using the HIMEM.SYS that came with Windows 3.0? Search through your ENTIRE hard disk and delete any version of HIMEM.SYS that may have been left over from DOS or previous versions of Windows. 2) Are you using shadow-RAM? If so, turn it off. You need ALL of your extended memory to be free, since you don't have much of it. In any case, even if you had plenty of RAM, shadowing often causes problems. 3) Your BIOS is dated 1985. Now, I'm not saying that your BIOS is at fault, but if neither of the two above suggestions fix your problem, you may want to try updating your BIOS. It *is* quite old, after all. Hope these suggestions help. Let me know how it goes... <=- Hubert