I have a smaller 6-gig drive upon which I wanted to run a legacy program. That legacy program wants DOS, native or that which is available under Win95 will do. I own licensed copies of both.

I used my boot disk for DOS 6.22 to start the computer (& not some boot disk from Win98 cause the dos is different and not downward compatible).

The drive got an FDISK and I formatted it.

When I try to load the Dos 6.22 ( not run but load) I get an error message that says that the program is too big for the memory.
That's not an accurate error message. The RAM memory is One Gig. So there's plenty. And it's only DOS 6.22. I used to run that on a 450 Meg hard drive with a whole Meg of memory . Woo Hoo~!!

While attempting to run ( after a successful load) Win95 I get an error message that says:

"Insufficient memory to initialize windows.
quit one or more memory resident programs or remove unnecessary utilities from your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, and restart your computer

Press any key to continue . . . "

And then the system shuts off when I hit any key.

There is no autoexec or config file. There is a COMMAND.COM file which I renamed to take it out of the loop. When I tried to re-boot after that, the system offered the "6 boot options" ranging from "SAFE MODE" to "SAFE MODE COMMAND PROMPT ONLY"

In SAFE MODE or BOOTLOGGED it presents me the same error message.
In BOOTLOGGED
It fails when I respond YES to the message:
"Load all Windows Drivers [Enter=Y, Esc=N] ?"

I am thinking that I may have a hardware problem.

Will DOS and Win95 run on a newer power supply type mother board? The type that shuts down based on a software command?

What are the RAM thresholds that may be difficult for DOS and Win95 to live with~? Should I yank a memory card?

Any ideas?