It really is very pointless putting that much RAM in a Windows 9x machine as it finds 
it difficult to address it. Unless the machine is a busy file server, it's not really 
going to ever be able to use it either.





On Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 11:03 am, David Jones wrote:
>I have a question about How 
>to Exit to DOS:

>
>
>I am running windows 98 on an HP computer with 800MHZ  procecessor and with 768 
Megs 
>of RAM. When I attempt to click on  MS-DOS Prompt I get an message telling me that 
>I do not have enough memory to run this program. This does not seem to be logical 
>at all as I have at least 600Megs of Ram available.
>I am beginning to wander if some small file that is needed for dos to access the 
>memory has been accidently deleted or something. Any help and/or suggestions as 
to 
>what I might try would be gratefully appreciated. Oh and I can get to the dos prompt 
>by rebooting in Dos Mode.
>
>Thanks,
>David Jones

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