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137759 2003-04-22 01:29:00 Recently (last 3 months) my computer has been acting weird. Every few weeks it comes up with an error msg. saying that my buffer is too small and i need to add dm=48 to the config.sys file.
The only way i have found to bypass the error is 2 press F-5 at startup but it is annoying so how do u stop this from happenning???????

My pc is a
HP Pavilion 8624
with
192 megs of ram
an 8 meg video card
a 15 gig HDD
&Windows 98 2nd ed.
it also has win 2k dual booting with two 7.5 gig partitions.
The error ocurrs before the boot menu screen comes up.
ChrisTate515 (2907)
137760 2003-04-22 02:05:00 I know this is stating the obvious but have you tried adding dm=48 to your config.sys file ? by pressing F5 you stop it from processing startup files such as config.sys and autoexec.bat so thats why F5 fixes it. Does it run alright when you do this ? zip1nz (2251)
137761 2003-04-22 02:08:00 does that happen with 2k or 98 ??

are you sure its not DMA=48 ??
tweak'e (174)
137762 2003-04-22 09:49:00 Win 98 does not need a Config.sys file so the obvious is not the answer. I would run Ad_Aware and also check to see what is loading at start up. mikebartnz (21)
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