I hate to interrupt what I interpret as disagreement over the news of incompatibility problems between Microsoft and Western Digital, but I have a real question: Is there such a thing as a PageOverCommit value in the SYSTEM.INI of Windows 3.11. It came about this way. Windows would refuse to load with this error message at the DOS prompt, "ERROR: PageOverCommit value in SYSTEM.INI is too large. Decrease the value, or if not present, add a setting that is less than 4." This began happening every time I tried to load windows with more than 65 megabytes recognized by HIMEM.SYS. I put together a new computer just so I could use the larger memory values for a ramdrive. Windows won't load even if there is no ramdrive--just forcing a larger value on himem.sys does it. This included using Windows 98 Himem.sys and setver.exe. It finally gave me that error message when there was no reason for it not to load. This brings up my question. There is no PageOverCommit value in my system.ini, so can this be a legitimate error message. How does one add a value of four to an entry that is not present?

Fred, Have you tried just adding: PageOverCommit=3 somewhere in your system.ini file? I'm not exactly sure WHERE in system.ini you'd put it. I'm not too familiar with settings in .ini files. It might work if you put it anywhere but it may have to go under a specific section header in the file. Just put it under each header and see if it works. Couldn't hurt. -Michael

PageOverCommit value should be in [386Enh] section of system.ini. However, you'd be better changing the settings from the CONTROL PANEL -> 386 ENHANCED to a lower value.