Can anyone help? I have a 386sx with 1 Mb of ram. I loaded win3.11 and when I restarted the machine it said it did not have enough extended memory?????

I believe you need 4 Meg of RAM to run windows for workgroups. It should be pretty cheap to update that computer to 4 Meg.

andy, d.r. is correct; if your computer has only 1 meg of RAM, chances are it's built onto the motherboard, and there are empty slots where you can add extra RAM; how much RAM, depends on the number of slots available. if your motherboard does support external add-on RAM, it's probably 30-pin, which you can't buy new anymore, but can find extremely cheap at used computer stores, friends, neighbors, or online. i'd go the neighbor & friend route first - they'd probably give it away to you :) james

Hi Andy: Make sure that you look at the motherboard, & if you have 4 memory 30 pin simms in 1 bank, you will need to remove them & replace with (4) 1 meg simm chips to give your 4 meg total. Or if you have 2 banks (8 slots total), then you could put (4) 1 Megs in bank 2 & leave you 1 Meg simm(s) in bank 1, to give you 5 Megs total. You must have the right combination of simms in the right banks for PC to work correctly. Hope this helps, good luck. Z

Stick with Windows 3.0 It needs less memory because it doesn't have the networking components. It runs slowly on 1mb but it will run. Make sure your config.sys has both himem.sys emm386.exe being loaded. You might also run memmaker to free up any unused high memory.

I have a 486 that said that problem when I had 2mb of ram. So I looked around on the board and found 8 slots, only 2 were used up with 1mb simms. So I went on EBay, and searched for 4mb Simms 30pin and found a lot of 10 4mb true parity 70ns 30pin simms. I installed em all! =) Try EBay, its cheap!

Win 3.1 will run with a minimum of 2 MB in standard mode. You should have 4 and 8 would be even better. With 1 MB of ram you do not have any extended ram.