UPDATE: 09/09/03 - Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender
Tuesday, September 9, 2003 at 7:02 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Esteban
(7 messages posted)
I haven’t been able to spend time fixing this computer as I wanted. I never expected
this much of a mess.
Here is the latest. If you all could help, I would be ever so grateful.
09/09/03
I removed and/or unplugged my two hard drives and I installed a freshly formatted
and zeroed out hard drive. Upon my attempt to install of Windows 98SE, I once again
received the evil error: “Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender”
I realize there is a windows support article on this, but they really don’t offer
any aid at all. I googled everyone I could find with this problem and no one has
seemed to resolve it.
I CAN boot up into DOS with bootdisks, however upon installation of windows via CD
boot, boot disk boot, or setup from my hard drive, I only run into the SAME error.
Someone mentioned that maybe I should try /M switches (device=himem.sys /testmem:on
/M:1). The only problem with this is that I NEVER had to do this in the past, therefore,
I should NOT have to do it now. I would rather find what is wrong and FIX it!
When I get the chance, I am going to try two things:
* Install any latest patches with my BIOS
* Remove my RAM and replace it with RAM that I KNOW works just to verify my RAM didn’t
go bad somehow.
To be honest, I do not think this will solve the problem. Since the hard drive is
clean, that means this isn’t a master boot record problem, a partition record problem,
or anything to do with the HD’s problem!
Any thoughts? Thanks you all!
Esteban Francisco
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