Hello

I had the same problem a few months ago with a system that came for repairs.  The memory test and Himem.sys passed ok without any problems.  In Control panel RAM reported was less than that installed.  I found that client had installed EMM386 that was allocating memory for DOS only programs.  A REM in config.sys in front of EMM386.EXE solved the problem.  Hope it works for you.

Regards
Joseph Lanzon
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Jim Cook wrote:

> Hello,
>
>      I have built a PII 350 Mhz. with 32 MB PC100 RAM.  I have installed Windows 98.  In Control Panel under the System Icon, the memory size is reported as 24 MB.  I sold the system and when the customer was trying to install a program that required 32 MB of RAM, the program would not install stating there was not enough memory.  What caused this?  Microsoft tech support was no help.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Jim Cook
> Jim's Computer Systems

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