jdalin@devildog.att.com (Jimmy Dalin) (02/08/91)
Help! I'm sure that this is an easy problem to solve, but so far it's got me absolutely stumped. I'm running Windows 3.0 on a 386-20 system in 386 enhanced mode. I started using 386MAX version 5.1 earlier this week, but the problem existed before 386MAX, and it still continues. I have 4 meg of memory. In a nutshell: when I double click on the DOS prompt within Windows to drop temporarily into DOS 4.01, virtually anything I try to do is rejected with an "Insufficient memory" error message. Even CHKDSK, for example, will not execute. Thanks to 386MAX, I can run a handy memory map routine (386UTIL.COM /M). When I run it from Windows, it tells me that I have about 575K available memory. When I drop into DOS and run the same utility, it tells me that I have only about 34K available memory. Even stranger, when I run the utility from DOS, the low memory numbers don't even add up to anything like 640K! It's as if some 540K of memory just disappeared; the utility tells me that memory stops at 1E00, instead of going up to A000, which is listed as the end point when I run the same utility from within Windows. I have no special drivers or TSR's running, and I installed Windows 3.0 taking all of the usual defaults. I have colleagues with basically the same setup as mine who are not experiencing this problem. Thanks in advance for any possible help.