re: UPDATE: 09/09/03 - Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender Thursday, September 9, 2004 at 3:22 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bill Hansen (1 messages posted) I had the same problem, and after visiting the Microsoft website, I replaced my ram with a known good one, and it came right up. Good luck On Tuesday, September 9, 2003 at 7:02 pm, Esteban wrote: > >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 Written in response to: UPDATE: 09/09/03 - Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender (Esteban: Tuesday, September 9, 2003 at 7:02 pm) Responses to this message: re: UPDATE: 09/09/03 - Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender (Mohamed Sorour: Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 7:07 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender (Esteban: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 6:40 am) re: Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender (smp_uk: Mon, Aug 11, 2003, 6:59 am) UPDATE: 09/09/03 - Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender (Esteban: Tue, Sep 9, 2003, 7:02 pm) re: UPDATE: 09/09/03 - Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender (Bill Hansen: Thu, Sep 9, 2004, 3:22 pm) re: UPDATE: 09/09/03 - Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender (Mohamed Sorour: Sun, Apr 10, 2005, 7:07 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum