Dell Dimension 3000 drivers "Program too large to fit in memory" - Deleted mysterious FAT32 partition by mistake!

Found out the problem is not OS specific.

Deleted the old partitions (I think there were two, one was FAT32, the other
NTFS) and created a new one to install a fresh WinXP. Everything looks fine
until I tried to install video and all the other drivers. WinXP doesn't
detect the video/sound/LAN. The drivers on the support site don't seem to
work (http://support.dell.com). Tried to execute the files but dos prompt
screen would "disappear". Ran the exe using command line and the error was
"Program too large to fit in memory". Tech support doesn't know (long wait
even at 3:30am) other than saying that SP2 has many troubles and to
uninstall it. At that time I was using a new SP2 install, but soon I
realized that wasn't the problem after doing a fresh install with the
included WinXP Home SP1a cd. Same problem. I believe it has something to
do with that FAT32 partition I deleted. No idea what was on it but it's
probably what would enable these online drivers to extract.

At first when turning machine off/on it would dual boot into Pro and Home.
I removed that line in boot.ini and the problem disappeared. So seems it
somehow "remembered" the old install. I had already deleted the old
partitions and
created a new one.

I tried the resource cd too, but when I go to autoplay and select the
system, 3000 doesn't appear under the menu. Tried to look under the
directories but nothing 3000 specific. The only 3000 drivers I could find
are the LAN drivers (R78727.EXE) dated July 1st. That installed without a
problem.

If anyone has successfully deleted the partitions and installed a fresh
WinXP on this machine please let me know. Or if you know where I could
download the extracted drivers I'd appreciate that too.

This is almost always a download problem. In the old days when we could
specify "binary" vs. "ASCII", you would get this when you downloaded an EXE
file in ASCII (text) format. Now, it usually means a corrupted download
file....

Have you tried downloading the file again?

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Regards,
Hank Arnold

"Loki" wrote in message
gers.com...
....................................... Ran the exe using command line and
the error was "Program too large to fit in memory".

I ran into this yesterday. It's not a download problem, I don't think.

It's a DOS program that won't run in a DOS box.

Download the version that creates the floppies.

Tom
"Hank Arnold" wrote in message
...
This is almost always a download problem. In the old days when we could
specify "binary" vs. "ASCII", you would get this when you downloaded an
EXE file in ASCII (text) format. Now, it usually means a corrupted
download file....

Have you tried downloading the file again?

--
Regards,
Hank Arnold

"Loki" wrote in message
gers.com...
....................................... Ran the exe using command line and
the error was "Program too large to fit in memory".