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Bill Kapelas <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:51:42 -0400
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Seems to be telling you that somethings wrong with your memory. Can't you
substitute another module? Or even try to reseat it?

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:10:37 -0400, Philip Mitchell wrote:

>hi, my pc is experiencing a boot problem. on boot up, it tries to load boot
record from the floppy, which says not found. Then, it loads boot record from
from IDE-0, which says it is ok. HIMEM tests extended memory, says done. The
windows XMS driver then loads, but an error message then appears that says
ERROR: HIMEM.SYS has detected unreliable memory at address 02E02808 and XMS
driver not installed.
>To continue starting your computer press ENTER.
>Once that is done, it says HIMEM.SYS is missing, and to make sure that file is
in my windows directory, Windows has stopped, restart the computer.
>
>I have looked in the windows directory, and HIMEM.SYS is present. I ran a
McAffee rescue disc to search for viruses, and none were found.
>
>Anyone have any ideas? I am stumped.
>
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