Win 98se shut down problems (again!)

[fobotcso]

CJ, gladly - for what it's worth.

My Grandfather Pentium Desktop is a Win98SE test machine with 64MB RAM and runs light. I could not get it to shut down properly until I "REM"ed out the following line in CONFIG.SYS as shown.

rem DEVICE=C: \WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE noems /v

if I remove the "REM" it starts erratically and sometimes stops erratically.

However! There's another Win98SE machine on a multi-boot laptop with 288MB RAM in which that line in CONFIG.SYS does not have to be "REM"ed out to make it start and stop properly. Even though 288MB is more than the recommended RAM for Win98SE. (Too many processor overheads in managing the RAM refreshes etc.) Disregard -see later post

So, it might be worth looking at your CONFIG.SYS and if that line is there and not "REM"ed then do so. If it's not there at all then put it there AFTER:

DEVICE=C: \WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS

and check that the line in CONFIG.SYS doesn't have a space between EMM and 386 as your post would suggest. The file you're telling the system to use is EMM386.EXE - usually in the \Windows folder but can be in the Root directory as long as the address is correct in CONFIG.SYS.

I'll be interested to hear you get on.

{Note: I have to corrupt the C Drive address to avoid getting a smiley}