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."

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. 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.)

Thanks,
David

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re: How to resolve "While initializing device IOS: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 4:59 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to resolve "While initializing device IOS [Need more Resources] Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 3:59 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) David Bookbinder wrote: |After installing a USB multifunction printer from Brother (DCP-130c), | 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." | 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. | 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 | 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? | 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How to resolve "While initializing device IOS [Need more Resources] Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 7:32 pm Posted by David Bookbinder (360 messages posted) Actually, the problem doesn't appear to have been related to physical memory or to system resources, but to the amount of memory available for device drivers in the lower 640K. Loading everything "high" and uninstalling a couple of devices I don't need anymore seems to have allowed enough room for the Brother (or maybe the Brother USB) driver to load. Thanks, David On Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 3:59 pm, gewg_ wrote: >David Bookbinder wrote: >|After installing a USB multifunction printer from Brother (DCP-130c), >| >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." >| >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. >| >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 >| >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? >| >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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum