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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See: "Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed (Q253912) .

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DOS Prompt


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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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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>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.
> Unless you do video editing on your system. Rendering depends on total RAM. I do a project at school but instead of it taking a couple hours on the 128MB RAM machine to render, I do it at home with 768MB in a few minutes. Just started getting the out of memory message for DOS and Win32 when I tried to setup DSL.

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On Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 6:27 pm, Silvia wrote:
>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.
>
>
>Unless you do video editing on your system. Rendering depends on total RAM. I do
>a project at school but instead of it taking a couple hours on the 128MB RAM machine
>to render, I do it at home with 768MB in a few minutes.
>Just started getting the out of memory message for DOS and Win32 when I tried to
>setup DSL.

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