Conventinal memory in ME

[Votan]

Last summer I had 511 K conventional memeory and was able to run large exe files (480 K) in ME dos window. Now mem command shows a miserable 188 K available for running programs in dos.

http://home.sprintmail.com/~votan/mem.jpg

I cleared msconfig, cleared run in registry, same mem output. I am unable to run the files I created last summer I was able to run without a glitch.

Anybody has an idea what's happening?

[kato]

the really screwy thing isn't that you only have 188K free, but that your computer is only showing 253K total convential memory. That should be 640K. what's up with that?

[MacGyver]

Is this from while windows was running, or from a straight DOS prompt?

[Votan]

Yes it should show 640 K but it doesn't!

This is from dos window from within ME, emulated dos. It wasn't like that 5 months ago.

[Votan]

Fixed. It seems some sofware, or updates, altered the memory management of dos session. This can be fixed from dos window, under ME.

Go to properties, memory, the conventional memory was set to 200 K. I changed it to Auto and ran mem command, now everything is fine.

[Ya_know]

[quote]Originally posted by kato2274:
<strong>the really screwy thing isn't that you only have 188K free, but that your computer is only showing 253K total convential memory. That should be 640K. what's up with that?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Good eye kato...