Critical Error No Himem.sys
Skip over Search Skip over Site Explorer Site ExplorerSite Explorer Search Product Support Services Forum mySupport Navigation Installing S5 V7.23 om windows xp machine. Created by: Marum at: 2/5/2008 6:16 PM (5 Replies) Rating (1) Thanks 0 Actions New post 6 Entries 2/5/2008 6:16 PM Rate (1) Marum Regular Member Joined: 10/10/2006 Last visit: 5/31/2009 Posts: 2 Rating: (1) Hi all,I tried to install Step 5 V7.23 on a computer with Windows XP Sp2.A got the message "Critical error: No Himem.sys or not enough XMS memory" What do i miss?Thanks in advance for your reactions.Jan Last edited by: Marum at: 07.02.2008 11:02hSorry for the troubles, but i solved my problem. Original i copied the S5.bat from the S5_Home directory to the desktop. Afterwards i discovered that the install program also made a shortcut to Start program under Simatic - Step 5 - Step 5. Starting from here is working correctly. I don't knowe why but it works. Suggestion To thank Quote Answer 2/5/2008 8:56 PM Rate (0) Late Platinum Expert Joined: 1/7/2006 Last visit: 4/4/2016 Posts: 2705 Rating: (270) Hi Marum,I think that the file is not yet installed well for the memory management inder STEP5. Do you have enough memory, then it micht be the autoexec.nt which is missing.... I hope that the answer will help, if you have still questions, don't hesitate to ask me.All the best, LateNever say never, think in solutions, not in trouble...... Suggestion To thank Quote Answer 6/23/2008 10:08 AM Rate (0) xxxxYYYYzz11 Member Joined: 6/23/2008 Last visit: 2/25/2016 Posts: 1 Rating: (0) I installed Step5 ver. 7.2 and get the same message when I try to startup Step5 from Step5\S5_HOME\S5.I do have enough memory and I do not have any file called "autoexec.nt" Suggestion To thank Quote Answer 5/28/2012 4:38 PM Rate (0) Miguel Ferreira Regul
authorization diskette. can i contact seimens to get a new one. do i have to pay for the new diskette. thanks. and do the following error will appear if there is no authorization. "critical error: no himem.sys or not enough xms-memory." TurpoUrpoMay 18th, 2010, 04:28 PMNo, that has to do with time when there was DOS and 640kB of memory was enough.. What is the version of Step5, what OS do you have installed. Was it working before, what did you do if it was? n.navaneethanMay 18th, 2010, 05:29 PMNo, that has to do with time when there https://support.industry.siemens.com/tf/ww/en/posts/installing-s5-v7-23-om-windows-xp-machine/15359/?page=0&pageSize=10 was DOS and 640kB of memory was enough.. What is the version of Step5, what OS do you have installed. Was it working before, what did you do if it was? software version V7.1. This is the first time installing the software after buying from the supplier. Also laptop is also new with os - XP, Also can i install the authorization in multiple system. Thanks. ManglemenderMay 18th, 2010, 05:58 PMI http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/archive/index.php/t-55444.html don't think that V7.1 will work on XP. V7.23 runs on XP but V7.1 may only run on Winows95 or WinNT4. One further point of note is that you will require a real serial port (not USB) to go online with the TTY lead. You can only install the authorisation on one computer but it is transferable between computers. Nick ojz0rMay 19th, 2010, 12:22 AMive gotten v7.1 to work on XP but its unstable and crashed every now and then so v7.23 is to recomend. Also those diskettes are next to impossible to duplicate so not worth the time to try :P n.navaneethanMay 19th, 2010, 04:25 AMI don't think that V7.1 will work on XP. V7.23 runs on XP but V7.1 may only run on Winows95 or WinNT4. One further point of note is that you will require a real serial port (not USB) to go online with the TTY lead. You can only install the authorisation on one computer but it is transferable between computers. Nick dear nick, thanks for the details, do you have any temporary solutions to connet my laptop to S5 100U. i have change in the program a contact (from no to nc function). i cannot find "authors.exe" in my diskette. i only found "ax_chech" folder only
of the basic configuration topics. In the last years I have been asked very often to have a look at someone's "autoexec", because something was not working as expected. Perhaps you have had (or still have) http://www.cubic.org/docs/configuring.htm those problems. If you think you're an config.sys expert I would suggest you still read this document, as it contains perhaps some tricks and features you do not know yet. 1) History In the good old days there was MS-DOS (sometimes people used PC-DOS, the clone from IBM for their pc-series. Later on DR-DOS was used for some days mainly because it was some $ cheaper...). When IBM designed critical error their first PCs they only had the MDA textmode capability. The MS-DOS that was delivered had (and still has) relatively good support for textmode (have a look at INT10h). But some years later everybody was able to purchase graphic adapters that could display bitmapped graphics. The PC design was not really prepared for this and most software still used textmode. But with the introduction of Microsoft Windows things changed. Microsoft critical error no presented a standard for graphic user interfaces, so nearly everybody could use the new look. And hardware manufactores supplied drivers for their products, and soon the complete PC world only wanted Windows. (I herewith omit the fact that Win1 and Win2 were no real successes. The hurry started in 1990, when Windows 3.0 was introduced). But there was still lots of software to run on MS-DOS and people wanted to use those old software packages. So Microsoft did not program Windows as a standalone operating system (which they could have done, if they wanted), but rather as a graphical add-on for MS-DOS. Again some years later some companies shouted MS-DOS is "out", mostly to sell their own operating systems (mainly IBM with OS/2). So Microsoft had to react. In fact they always tell you that their product Windows 95 is a complete operating system no longer relying on MS-DOS. But don't trust them. It is all the old way! Every time you start up your Windows 95 machine, MS-DOS (in this case v7.0) is started. Command.com then starts a file called win.com in your windows directory. If you don't trust me, then rename your win.com to some other name and reboot your machine. You will notice, that y