Q: Guys,
Im help to determine why I am an “out of environment space” error on a Win98SE machine receives after installing third of the memory stick. Heres the details – Abit Bh6, 256MB PC100, 1.2GHz Power Leap CeleronII, Win98SE. I installed third stick of 128MB PC133 memory and the first start came fine.
Subsequent boots in a loop restart, and boot to DOS indicates that the “out of environment space” error. I can not boot into Windows, even after removing the third pole, standard BIOS settings, reconfigure the BIOS for the CPU Bh6, etc.
What am I missing here? Your help / advice / suggestions will be greatly appreciated. This is my brother / sister in laws machine and I do not want to let them down. I have a Google search and came w / a suggestion to increase the shell environment. Is it as simple as that? I seem to another institution that but for the life of me I can remember is remembering fixes. HELP!
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Re:guy, you've likely hit the nail on the head. Enough's messed up that a reinstall is probably in order.
Re:I'm in need of help to determine why I'm getting an "out of environment space" error on a Win98SE machine, after installing a third stick of memory. Here's the details – Abit BH6, 256MB PC100, Powerleap 1.2GHz CeleronII, Win98SE. I installed a third stick of 128MB PC133 memory and first boot came up fine.Well let me give you a scenario:
First boot came up to Windows fine, but for whatever reason (defective or incompatible memory module), any number of files could have become corrupted: the registry, VMM32.VXD, several system or driver files, etc.
Try restoring a known 'good' backup copy of the registry, first. If that doesn't work, you may need to re-install Win98SE.
Re:Thanks guy, we'll give that a try.
Re:Try
FILES = 100
Type this line in your config.sys file that is in your root directory…
Edit: BTW, the reboot loop is usually a registry problem. Restore the registry from a back up if you can using scanreg /restore in the C:\WINDOWS directory. Use one from a date when you know the computer was working and try again…
Bfonnes
Re:guy, it could very well be a hardware issue. It will boot fine to a DOS prompt, but Windows just puts it into a reboot cycle. I dunno, have to look into it further. Bottom line is it's time for brother in law to get a new machine!
Re::Q
I dunno, but this definitely sounds like a hardware issue to me.
Re:guy, that's the problem. When the system wouldn't boot w/ the third stick I simply took it out. Now I'm in this situation where Win98SE ends up in a reboot circle. If I try to boot into Safe Mode that doesn't work either – the system simply reboots and reboots and reboots. I can get to a command prompt and the line just before the C: prompt indicates the "out of enviroment space" error.
A couple of times, when the system would appear to boot to Windows I'd end up w/ a vxd blue screen. But, typically it just reboots until I shut it down.
Re:If it worked before the memory was inserted, could it be a problem with the memory stick?
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