re: Win98 will not complete install-insufficient memory to initialize windows?
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Rudolph Loew
(4 messages posted)
Your installation is crashing because Windows 98 cannot be used with more than approximately
1GB of RAM. You have 2GB of RAM in your system. This overflows an internal memory
table causing the rather inaccurate "out of memory" error. I have developed a Patch
that adds support for up to 4GB of RAM. For more information go to:
http://members.aol.com/rloew1
On Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 9:05 am, dowyler wrote:
>Help please from someone smarter than I am.
>
>I wiped both hard drives ( 120 mB) and tried to install Win98 upgrade to run some
>old software titles. I have Windows 3.11 disks I use for Compliance Verification.
>The problem is every time Windows goes to "start for the first time" after the first
>half of the install it crashes with an error "Insufficient memory to initialize
Windows,
>try removing some TSR programs or remove utilities from your autoexec.bat or config.sys
>files".
>
>First, I have tried installing with minimum autoexec.bat and config.sys. I have
run
>FDISK and Format on the drive more times than I can remember. I found post about
>Win98 not liking drives above 60 GB, so I tried to partition my drive into smaller
>sizes and even installed a 13.2 GB hard drive and used it, neither worked. I tried
>copying the Win98 files to the hard drive and install from there, again with boot-able
>disk with minimum set up- does not work.
>
>I tried making the CD ROM drive boot-able in BIOS setup, didn't work. I tried turning
>off all unnecessary hardware in BIOS setup, didn't make a difference.
>
>I get same message when I try and install Win95. I can install my old DOS 6.22 and
>Win 3.11 with no trouble but can't seem to get to Win98 from there?
>
>Saw post about FDISK version supplied with Win98 being incorrect version/type so
>went to link provided in post and got fix, but will not work in DOS mode ( figuring
>out a lot of programs won't work in DOS mode, which is hampering my efforts).
>
>Found post about RAM possibly being corrupted, so downloaded to floppy tester program
>( mtinst.exe) and ran it on my system. No errors found.
>
>OK so now for my hardware:
>
>I have ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe running Pent 4 Core 2 6600 @ 2.4 GHz.
>
>I have 2 Gb DDR2 RAM.
>
>My BIOS is most current version 0901 according to ASUS web site.
>
>Hard drives are WesternDigital.
>
>CMOS battery has not been changed but not seeing CMOS errors to indicate trouble
>( BIOS setting not changing on there own, etc.)
>
>Something seems to be gobbling up the memory used for Windows install, but I'm pulling
>my hair out trying to figure out what or how it is doing it. Been a long time so
>my editing of Autoexec.bat and Config.sys skills are rusty, but I can get them edited
>so there is minimum install.
>
>All ideas and comments welcome. I'm just about out of ideas.
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