Cal,

With some help from our friends in the group., found that the problem was
being caused by my  Norton anti-virus program.  The group directed me to a
link at NOSPIN with all the solutions.

Thanks for responding!

Jim Sudela

CAL Zimmerman wrote:

> At 07:49 AM 99/08/23 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have a Compact Presario PC that is acting real strange.
> >
> >I am running Win 98 2nd Edit. w Intel 200 mhz Pent chip, 32 mg RAM.
> >
> >When I re-boot the SYS I regularly experience a failed re-boot and
> >receive the notice that HIMEM.SYS is missing from the Windows directory.
>
> Check and see if you have, on your hard drive (root)   config.sys
>
> If you do, and are not loading himem.sys,   it will fail.  Windows 95/98
> doesn't need the config.sys and autoexec.bat files, unless you are loading
> them for DOS programs/games.  I have noticed some software still
> creates/modifies config.sys and autoexec.bat files - maybe this is what is
> happening.
>
> calz
>
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