Himem.sys missing.

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April 15th, 1999, 12:04 PM
Nagel

Himem.sys missing.

I have a Win95 laptop and when I boot up it goes straight to Dos. I try to start Windows and I get the message - HIMEM.SYS is missing. Make sure that is in the windows directory. - I checked it and it's there. I renamed my himem.sys and went to another Win95 machine and copied the Himem.sys to the machine that won't boot and I get the same thing. I'm stumped on this one. HELP!!!!! thanx!
April 15th, 1999, 04:15 PM
World Library

Hi,
Try opening each of the below. They are in C:
and see if there is a DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIGHMEM.SYS

CONFIG.DOS
********************
FILES=30
BUFFERS=30
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE /DOUBLE_BUFFER
STACKS=9,256

CONFIG.SYS
****************************
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF
FILESHIGH=30
BUFFERSHIGH=20
STACKSHIGH=0,0
FCBSHIGH=1
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\PBTOOLS\CR_ATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD001

CONFIG.WIN
**********************************
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS

Hope this helps.

World Library
September 1st, 1999, 01:42 PM
rdanner3

This message is usually accompanied by another message that reads similar to this (italics mine):

Cannot control A20 line!

This is the key to the problem. The "HIMEM.SYS missing" messages are bogus and totally incorrect! Place this in CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS /M:1

Works 99.9% of the time. For some reason, some computers freak out when you install certain programs, and this is the way it is usually fixable.

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Raymond Danner III <[email protected]>
Computer Consultation Specialist
April 27th, 2001, 09:22 PM
lim mui cheng

Quote:

Originally posted by World Library:
Hi,
Try opening each of the below. They are in C:
and see if there is a DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIGHMEM.SYS

CONFIG.DOS
********************
FILES=30
BUFFERS=30
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE /DOUBLE_BUFFER
STACKS=9,256

CONFIG.SYS
****************************
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF
FILESHIGH=30
BUFFERSHIGH=20
STACKSHIGH=0,0
FCBSHIGH=1
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\PBTOOLS\CR_ATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD001

CONFIG.WIN
**********************************
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS

Hope this helps.

World Library

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mclim
April 27th, 2001, 10:43 PM
PCSolutions

Check the date on this one folks!
1999!!!

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Keep it simple!