Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!andrea From: andrea@hp-sdd.hp.com (Andrea K. Frankel) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows/286 Crash with Expanded Memory Message-ID: <2011@hp-sdd.hp.com> Date: 17 May 89 19:30:20 GMT References: <1019@dinl.mmc.UUCP> Reply-To: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel) Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division Lines: 18 In article <1019@dinl.mmc.UUCP> schwartz@dinl.uucp (Michael Schwartz) writes: >I decided to increase my expanded memory in my AboveBoard 286 to >1 MB. Windows now crashes upon load of any application. When I got this, I eventually solved the problem by reinstalling Windows over the existing copy. I did take the precaution of backing up the pif files I had altered, and all back copies of win.ini; other than that, the reinstallation didn't trash anything, and it did solve the crash problem. Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664 "wake now! Discover that you are the song that the morning brings..." ______________________________________________________________________________ UUCP : {hplabs|nosc|hpfcla|ucsd}!hp-sdd!andrea Internet : andrea%hp-sdd@hp-sde.sde.hp.com (or @nosc.mil, @ucsd.edu) CSNET : andrea%hp-sdd@hplabs.csnet USnail : 16399 W. Bernardo Drive, San Diego CA 92127-1899 USA