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- From: tom@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Tom Aurand)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: HELP: OS/2 reports not enough memory!
- Message-ID: <Jul31.143816.27406@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 14:38:16 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.205616.11037@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- Reply-To: tom@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Tom Aurand)
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- Organization: Colorado State U. Center for Computer Assisted Engineering.
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- In article <1992Jul30.205616.11037@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>,
- sundaram@cps.msu.edu (Divya Sundaram) writes:
- >
- > Hi all,
- > I came home today and turned on my PC and it startup up OKAY. As soon as
- > the system Booted up, I tried to run a DOS shell. It told me that there was
- > insufficient memory to run my apps! I have a system w\16MB ram. Thus it seems
- > unlikely that the starup (which contains the color palette and windows clock)
- > takes up all the available memory. Also in the startup is the utility that
- > tells me how much memory is being used. This utility tells me there is over
- > 6MBs free - and yet I cannot stortup anything! Not even open the
- settings for
- > an app. It tells me to shutdown some apps and try again. When I shut
- down the
- > Windows clock and the Color Palette, I can run a DOS session.
- >
- > Any views and ideas are welcome.
- > Thanks
- > Divya
- > (sundaram@cps.msu.edu)
-
- I have similar problems, though not immediately after start-up. I never
- shutdown
- until OS/2 won't go on which is approximately once a day. Also a 16 Mb system
- with all the patches.
- Come on you gurus, what's happening here?
-
- Tom
-