Help Needed with 'pstartsql' & 'pisql' error message.

Experiencing problems with getting pstartsql or pisql to run. startsql starts okay as does isql. I don't work with DOS all that much so am not up on the errors. Machine: 386DX 25mhz, 8mb RAM, VGA Version of Informix is 2.10.06 Error message: DOS/16M error: Cannot run 286 protected mode within Virtual 8086. mem/c output is as follow: Conventional Memory : Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex ------------- --------------------- ------------- MSDOS 17152 ( 16.8K) 4300 BETASCSI 7552 ( 7.4K) 1D80 HIMEM 1072 ( 1.0K) 430 EMM386 6848 ( 6.7K) 1AC0 SETVER 400 ( 0.4K) 190 SMARTDRV 2464 ( 2.4K) 9A0 STACKER 41760 ( 40.8K) A320 COMMAND 2624 ( 2.6K) A40 EP 8304 ( 8.1K) 2070 MOUSE 10832 ( 10.6K) 2A50 STARTSQL 197888 (193.3K) 30500 COMMAND 2992 ( 2.9K) BB0 FREE 64 ( 0.1K) 40 FREE 128 ( 0.1K) 80 FREE 353840 (345.5K) 56630 Total FREE : 354032 (345.7K) Total bytes available to programs : 354032 (345.7K) Largest executable program size : 353504 (345.2K) 2490368 bytes total EMS memory 1982464 bytes free EMS memory 7340032 bytes total contiguous extended memory 0 bytes available contiguous extended memory 5029888 bytes available XMS memory MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Bob Beaulieu bobb@netcom.com (408)426-4663 work (408)978-0818 home -- ============================================================= Bob Beaulieu bobb@netcom.com San Jose, CA (408) 978-0818 =============================================================