boerner@ut-emx.UUCP (Brendan B. Boerner) (03/11/90)
Hi, I am using Quarterdeck's QEMM-386 v5.0 extended memory manager and am having some difficulties. I have a Canon 386 box with 640K conventional memory, 4 megs extended, with 3 of it being used by QEMM. I also have a Logitech Mouse, an EGA adapter with > 64K installed and a Tall Tree Systems JLaser 3 adapter. I am using Microsoft Windows/286 v2.11. My problem is that when using a disk cache program such as Microsoft's SMARTDRV.SYS, Windows crashes. Specifically, it seems that if I do not move the mouse, Windows might run for awhile, but when I move the mouse, (usually not until the pointer is near the upper left edge of the screen) the machine will reset itself. This is not the only problem I have seen with QEMM. The Tall Tree Systems JLaser 3 board is a device which connects an HP Laserjet laser printer to get 300x600 dpi output. When I run the test program supplied, I get a page of garbage and a) the machine locks, or b) I get a message that I had a stack overflow and the machine locks. I have a copy of the memory manager from Quadtel (came with the Swan 386SX which I also have. Oh, lest you think that I am rolling in dough, these machines belong to a client). I tried to use it in place of QEMM. Voila, no crashes! Windows is happy, the Jlaser software works, what could be better? Well, all is not wondeful. The Quadtel software leaves less conventional memory around than the Quarterdeck software. Also, it will be used on the Swan, not the Canon. Anyway, I am at a loss. I have tired various parms which QD suggests in the manual when having problems such as NOSH, NOROM, NOROMHOLES, NOSORT, NOXBDA, NOXMS, and some others. I have also disabled High RAM feature. If anyone can offer suggestions, it would be appreciated. I would also like to hear from anyone who has used Qualitas' 386-To-The-Max. Perhaps I might be able to use it instead of QEMM. Thanks, Brendan -- Brendan B. Boerner Phone: 512/471-3241 Microcomputer Technologies The University of Texas @ Austin Internet: boerner@emx.utexas.edu UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!boerner BITNET: CCGB001@UTXVM.BITNET AppleLink: boerner@emx.utexas.edu@DASNET#
RFM@psuvm.psu.edu (03/12/90)
I read somewhere that Microsoft poeple themselves runs Windows 286 with 386- MAX. DesView & Windows don't cohabit peacefully....
Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (03/12/90)
In article <90070.225325RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>, RFM@psuvm.psu.edu wrote: }I read somewhere that Microsoft poeple themselves runs Windows 286 with 386- }MAX. DesView & Windows don't cohabit peacefully.... Shhh.... Better not tell all those people running Windows under DESQview.... (the only caveat is that you must use Win286 because both Win386 and DV386 try to use virtual86 mode) -- UUCP: {ucbvax,harvard}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=- 412-268-3053 (school) -=- FAX: ask ARPA: ralf@cs.cmu.edu BIT: ralf%cs.cmu.edu@CMUCCVMA FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 "How to Prove It" by Dana Angluin Disclaimer? I claimed something? 16. proof by cosmology: The negation of the proposition is unimaginable or meaningless. Popular for proofs of the existence of God.
demarco@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Vince Demarco) (03/15/90)
In article <90070.225325RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes: >I read somewhere that Microsoft poeple themselves runs Windows 286 with 386- >MAX. DesView & Windows don't cohabit peacefully.... I'm running Windows 286 in a DV 386 window with no problems, I've never had a crash running anything in DV (in a window) AS LONG AS YOU START ALL THE GRAPHICS BASED PROGRAMS FIRST, (Most crashes could be avoided, I think by telling DV that the program is not well behaved, but then it starts the program in full screen mode if you have anything else that IS well behaved in another window... maybe it's just me... I'm running DV 2.25 with QEMM 4.23 on a 386 with 640K conventional, 384 shadow, and 2 Megs extended) And even if a graphics program IS started after a text, it usually runs without a hitch, but once in a long while, the graphics card changes modes, and there's nothing I can do to get DV to reset itself to a sane state, short of Alt Q Y and restarting DV (screen blanks when switching between programs and although, DV is STILL running, you can't do anything, cuz the card is off in never-never land- I've had this happen with a real Herc graphics as well as ATI VGA cards... anyone else?) Me