Ext'd Memory Sys crashed, HIMEM.SYS is missing - Help!

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My computer won't start. Instead i get an error message: "Unable to control A20 line! XMS driver not installed. HIMEM.SYS is missing." Cont-Alt-Del won't work. I'm using an NEC Ready 9629 intel pentium computer. Any ideas you might have on what my next steps should be would be most appreciated.

thanx, tom

 

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Can you get into safe mode? If you can, edit the c:\config.sys file. I
think that for a basic win95 installation you can pretty much remark (using
REM) every line out and it will work just fine.

"Tom Little" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My computer won't start. Instead i get an error message: "Unable to
control A20 line! XMS driver not installed. HIMEM.SYS is missing."
Cont-Alt-Del won't work. I'm using an NEC Ready 9629 intel pentium computer.
Any ideas you might have on what my next steps should be would be most
appreciated.
>
> thanx, tom