Hi Everybody
A friend gave me a laptop which had stopped working (Dell Inspiron 1525) . Says that if I can fix then it's mine.
When I powered it up it failed to boot giving an error message saying the registry was corrupted.
So I thought I should just install a new OS. I had an old copy of 98 lying around so I tried and
everything seemed to be going fine with the install until I got "Error Message: Insufficient Memory
to Initialize Windows".
After a little searching I found:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/184447
It says:
"For Windows 98, restart your computer, press and hold down the CTRL key until the Startup menu appears, and then choose Command Prompt Only.
Change to the folder into which you are attempting to install Windows.
Edit the System.ini file. To do so, type edit system.ini, and then press ENTER.
Add the following line in the [386Enh] section of the file
MaxPhysPage=30000
Save the file, and then restart your computer. Windows Setup should continue. "
Now I should point out this is all totally new to me.
I type "edit system.ini" and get to the blue screen np. However I don't know how to do anything from this screen (that is how to go about editing anything). The mouse pointer doesn't work and F1 help isn't much.
I'd appreciate if someone could explain how to implement this fix.
tia
Bear
A friend gave me a laptop which had stopped working (Dell Inspiron 1525) . Says that if I can fix then it's mine.
When I powered it up it failed to boot giving an error message saying the registry was corrupted.
So I thought I should just install a new OS. I had an old copy of 98 lying around so I tried and
everything seemed to be going fine with the install until I got "Error Message: Insufficient Memory
to Initialize Windows".
After a little searching I found:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/184447
It says:
"For Windows 98, restart your computer, press and hold down the CTRL key until the Startup menu appears, and then choose Command Prompt Only.
Change to the folder into which you are attempting to install Windows.
Edit the System.ini file. To do so, type edit system.ini, and then press ENTER.
Add the following line in the [386Enh] section of the file
MaxPhysPage=30000
Save the file, and then restart your computer. Windows Setup should continue. "
Now I should point out this is all totally new to me.
I type "edit system.ini" and get to the blue screen np. However I don't know how to do anything from this screen (that is how to go about editing anything). The mouse pointer doesn't work and F1 help isn't much.
I'd appreciate if someone could explain how to implement this fix.
tia
Bear
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