XMS Driver missing...... help!!

[mkriek]

There's a problem and I have no idea how to solve it. I have tried several things, but nothing seems to be working. Here's the situation:

I have a laptop (Compaq Armada 1500c) with specs: Celeron 366MHz, 96RAM, 6GB HDD.

When Windows 98 was running, al of the sudden a message came up: HIMEM.SYS missing. If I had read the bulletin board than, I could have solved the problem, but instead I formatted the C drive and tried to reinstall Windows.

No such luck! It kept telling me XMS Drivers were not installed and HIMEM.SYS was missing. I managed to install Windows 2000 Prof. Ed. and it seemed to be o.k.
However, every time I tried to install a program, it said: Not enough memory, please free some space and try again.

I formatted C again, and it still says: XMS Drivers not installed. And when I try to install and OS it says: Can't Controll Line A-20 (I think that was it).

Does anyone have a clu on how I can install (and find!!) XMS Drivers??? Please help me?


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Morten Kriek
mk.kriek@quicknet.nl
+31 (6)25 041043

[Robert M]

I think the problem can be solved with the following link. Read the whole thing before doing anything. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q73/7/13.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=himem.sys&rnk=29&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=W95