re: How to resolve "While initializing device IOS [Need more Resources]
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
David Bookbinder wrote:
|After installing a USB multifunction printer from Brother (DCP-130c),
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Code scribblers these days *DO* produce
bloated masses of self-congratulatory ego trips. 8-(
|on startup I get the error:
|"While initializing device IOS:
|ERROR: Real mode system memory allocation failed."
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As Keith noted, a post that that includes the word *memory*
SHOULD include the **amount** of RAM in the box.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1127247347
...though, in _this_ case Keith, we're dealing with **Resources**.
|I gather, from an Internet search,
|that Windows is running out of memory loading drivers from the iosubsys folder.
|However, I don't know how to avoid this problem,
|as I need the driver to use the printer.
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A useful entry on a hardware device's spec sheet would be
**the amount of RAM that vendor's bloated device driver chews up**.
The ancillary routines SHOULD be *callable* AS NEEDED. 8-(
|How can I either increase available memory for drivers
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Yeah. (Keith's misguided tack aside), you're in a bit of a pickle.
cache of http://apptools.com/rants/resources.php
...and, again, crappy code from semi-trained code monkeys doesn't help.
cache of http://www.thpc.info/ram/resources.html
J.R. (Pappy) had some good suggestions:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1128961316
|or figure out what drivers are being loaded that I don't actually need
|and remove them, so I can use this printer?
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http://www.google.com/search?q="view.installed.drivers"
...and if some hardware device is attached to the system
and there ISN'T a device driver installed for that, Windoze WILL pitch a fit at Startup
EVERY time.
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