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. > > Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to > Digest mode - visit our web site: > http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html