[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Quattro Pro and Suntac

jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca (The Econoclast) (03/27/90)

	I recently received my upgrade to Quattro Pro. It seems nice, but
it doesn't like my expanded memory/driver. I have an AT clone with 4m of
ram, using the Suntac chip and version 1.02 (1987) of their sems.sys driver.
According to Borland, this driver probably takes up too much address space
(from A000 to C7FF, or something like that [I have no idea what this means])
and conflicts with some address space for the ATIVIP graphics card I'm using.
I have two questions:

1.	Does the above (or some corrected variant of it) make sense?

2.	Does anyone have an address/phone no. of Sun Electronics so I
	can inquire about receiving a newer ems driver?

Thanks.

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cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) (03/30/90)

In article <5510.260f251f@uwovax.uwo.ca> jpalmer@uwovax.uwo.ca (The Econoclast) writes:
$	I recently received my upgrade to Quattro Pro. It seems nice, but
$it doesn't like my expanded memory/driver. I have an AT clone with 4m of
$ram, using the Suntac chip and version 1.02 (1987) of their sems.sys driver.
$According to Borland, this driver probably takes up too much address space
$(from A000 to C7FF, or something like that [I have no idea what this means])
$and conflicts with some address space for the ATIVIP graphics card I'm using.
$I have two questions:
$1.	Does the above (or some corrected variant of it) make sense?

   I don't think I have the same version of the Suntac EMS driver that you
have ... yours must be an EMS 4.0 driver if it uses that memory range.
Segments A000 and B000 are used by VGA boards, so you aren't allowed to put
EMS there.  However, if your computer works fine with other graphics
packages, then that isn't the problem.

   If that is what the problem is, then you'll have to modify the line in
your config.sys that says where the memory is to be mapped (don't ask me
how to do this, as I'm not using their EMS 4.0 driver).

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