Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 20:58:20 10/24/97
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On October 24, 1997 at 23:24:38, Keith Ian Price wrote: >On October 24, 1997 at 23:15:17, Richard Burlant wrote: > >>Just bought Rebel 9 and install keeps aborting.Seems it due to not >>enough conventional memory.My machine has 16 megs .Obviously I >>have to gain more conv. mem. Since I dont have a clue as to how to >>accomplish this SAFELY,can anyone help ? Even the nice guys at ICD >> couldn`t figure it out ! >Does the install abort or does it complete and then when you run say, >"Program aborted! Install again..."? That's what my Rebel 9 upgrade >does. I think mine has something to do with the copy protection, even >though it accepts my Rebel 8 disk when it asks for it during >installation. If it aborts during installation instead with a message >about not enough conventional memory, it is talking about the lowest >640K of memory, not your 16 MB. To increase this requires removing >device drivers, and would require a knowledge of what is in your >config.sys and autoexec.bat files, and what version of DOS you are >running, (or Win95). Yes, I tried to help him with this. Trouble is he has only about 400K free conventional memory. Rebel 9 needs 520K according to its .pif files. We tried to run memmaker, but this only gave us a small increase. From what he told me it appears he has nothing but "files=20" in config.sys and only share.exe loading in autoexec.bat. So we tried running "mem /c |more" where we found a module called "system" taking up 196K of conventional memory. None of my windows 95 machines have this and I don't know where it's coming from or what it is. Any ideas?
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