Himem.sys xms driver not installed

SYS file. It should now boot normally. June 28th, , PM 3. To Neens2 from Berkshire England Thank you for your response to my question. In your answer you stated I installed Norton Systemworks I have not installed this. I have a laptop compac persario windows 98 I am not sure if I still need to follow your directions AS I have not installed anything Please respond as to if I should do as you suggested Thank you carolesue.

June 29th, , AM 4. Do you get any beep codes during bootup if you are even able to boot? Feedback Doctor's Lounge. All times are GMT The time now is PM. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Stick with troubleshooting the Ram and I think you will fix this. Don't worry about config.

Same for autoexec. Okay, I got it thanks. I have an eye appointment at P. M EST so I won't be able to work on their computer until after that sometime. I won't be able to get a response back to you until tonight sometime if i have anymore problems. Thanks for the help, and I'll do what i can to fix it with that i have. No problem, I'll be back later this afternoon or evening and see how you've done.

Well, i took the cover off, and that took me 2 hrs last night. It was one of those ones that pulls off from the top but it wasn't budging for a while until i got the front open a little bit.

Anyway's, to make a long story short I can't get at the memory modules because there's a system board in front of it, and I took as many screws out as i could. There's two screws that are stripped though and I can't get them out.

I'm going to go back over today with some of the tools i have and see what i can do otherwise i'll put it back together and see if there's another way to fix the problem besides troubleshooting the hardware. Any other suggestions??

If i can't get to the motherboard to take out the memory modules and put them back in? I know for a fact there not going to hire somebody to come over. Eventually they'll just have to get a new computer. Also, i made a setup disk for that Windows Memory Diagnostic like it said but it's not working when i tried to run it from the start. Myabe it's the disk i'm not sure. I might have to try another disk, but i don't think the disk is the problem. I've never seen a motherboard in which the memory modules were not easily accessible, however my experience with systems running windows does not go back this far: Hewlett Packard Even if you get access to the modules, you may have problems replacing what is being used there.

How did you create windiag -- did you use a floppy disk or burn the windiag. If a floppy disk was used, the setup Mtinst. Then the computer is rebooted. If the floppy then does not boot, the floppy disk or drive itself may be bad. Do other bootable floppies work in the drive -- such as a startup disk? Not sure what you mean here: not working when i tried to run it from the start. I created it from a floppy yes, I ran the setup from the harddrive and it copied the files to the disk, but it didn't run on their computer when i put the floppy in and rebooted.

It said loading The drive is fine. I'll try the disk again on my computer here, and if it is the disk i'll use a different one to see if it works. So is this the only option i have right now if i can't get to the memory modules? Or should i format their harddrive and install Windows 95 on it because my Windows 98 cd doesn't work and i do have a windows 95 install disk?

If it is a ram fault, and that particular error points to ram in almost all the cases I have seen, problems will persist after the format -- if you could get the format utility to run with it. When ram fails, the only resolution is to replace the ram -- or in some cases, if you can start in Safe Mode, you can reduce the amount of ram that Windows tries to use.

There may be a way of doing this from a command prompt by modifiying the system. Okay, I guess i can try that. It's worth a shot. Which one should i use then the lowermost 8 mb's of ram? I'm not quite sure how much Ram she has on their computer. I did check yesterday how much was in extended memory though. Off the top i would say they probly have about 50 mb's of ram, but that's just a guess. I tried the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool again with a different floppy disk, and It was created succesfully again.

I rebooted and got the same error. I know my disks are okay. Whay is it not running even on my computer? I don't know why the floppy isn't working for you. Can you outline the steps you are using? I don't recall whether the setup utility formats the floppy first, but it's best to start with that.

TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace. Remember Me? Advanced Search. Forum Windows Operating Systems Windows 3. Results 1 to 3 of 3. Thread: XMS Driver not installed?????? October 6th, , PM 1. XMS Driver not installed?????? SYS line! SYS is not loaded. SYS I deleted my 3. Nothing changed on the reboot. What should I do?