"Insufficient Conventional Memory" when Starting Windows

Last reviewed: November 23, 1994
Article ID: Q83276

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.1, 3.11

SUMMARY

You may receive the following error message when starting Windows:

   Insufficient conventional memory to run Windows; reconfigure your
   system to increase available memory and try again.

This error message may be caused by attempting to load Windows into the Upper Memory Area (UMA) by typing one of the following commands

   loadhigh win

   -or-

   lh win

at the MS-DOS command prompt or in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. To prevent this error message, leave off the LOADHIGH command and load Windows into conventional memory by typing the following command:

win

KBCategory: kbenv kberrmsg
KBSubcategory: win31 winboot winmem
Additional reference words: 3.00 3.0 3.0a 3.00a execution

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Last reviewed: November 23, 1994
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