re: How to resolve "While initializing device IOS:
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 4:59 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1652 messages posted)
David Bookbinder wrote:
|After installing a USB multifunction printer from Brother (DCP-130c), on startup
|I get the error:
|"While initializing device IOS:
|ERROR: Real mode system memory allocation failed."
|How can I either increase available memory
|for drivers or figure out what drivers are being loaded that I don't actually need
|and remove them, so I can use this printer? (Or some other solution I can't fathom.)
Well David I've just downloaded the manual to the Brother (DCP-130c), and it is compatable
with Win98SE, just checking.
How much memory do you have. Right-click on My Computer and read the bottom line.
Now I know originally Win98SE would run with 32MB but that was 11 years ago when
it first came out. It would run but slowly. Modern applications have got more are
more memory hungry. Users have a lot more apps running in the background which they
don't actually need. Each app is using system resources (memory), so cut out the
crap you don't need running.
Now you haven't actually said how old you computer is. Memory comes in different
sizes and speeds. PC100 and PC130 for older computers. Mine uses PC100 and I have
639MB. Now there is a limit for the maximum amount you can install in Win98SE. If
you do a web search they say 512MB. I had 512MB I bought 2) 256MB strips of eBay.
Don't think that you can buy PC130 because they are faster because they won't work
in a PC100 system, get the correct speed.
I was having problems programming (VB) certain apps. Anything above 50 Forms (thats
50 different windows) and I would have Out of Memory errors. So I decided to put
another 128MB in the slots. Users say you can't have greater than 512MB but I put
the extra 128MB and it shows on My Computer. It shows in a Memory app that I made
and I don't get the Out of Memory errors anymore, so to me it is working.
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