cs4g6aw@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Amos Yung) (11/11/89)
I have posted the following problem a few weeks ago. Much to my surprise, nobody responds to my quest for help (except a few mail sending me condolence and wish me luck to be a functional member of the society again). I decided I should give it one more try. This time, if you know the solution, please give me a hand. Here comes the problem: I am using a 12MHz AT with 3 meg RAM (1 meg on board and 2 meg on a no-name RAM board). The memory was set to 640K conventional memory, 384k extentded memory (used as cache) and 2048K expanded memory. But when I try to run Desqview, problems came up. The Expanded Memory row in the memory status program will show that: Totol Memory :2048K, Total Available: 2048K, Largest Available : 0 k. I don't think the problem lies on the EMM 4.0 driver because Norton Utilities and Window 286 both recognize the fact that I have 2048K of Expanded memory. BTW, Pagemaker used very little (about 512K) of the expanded memory when it is running. It seems to prefer its own temp file. Do you guys know what the problems are? Appreciate any help that I can get. Thanks! -- Amos Yung | "I am not only the Vice-president," said Dan Quayle, McMaster University, | held in his hand a photo of himself, younger, cs4g6aw@130.113.1.1 | balded. "I am also a client." He smiled handsomely.
poffen@chomolungma (Russ Poffenberger) (11/15/89)
In article <255BAF94.11265@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6aw@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Amos Yung) writes: > >I have posted the following problem a few weeks ago. Much to my surprise, >nobody responds to my quest for help (except a few mail sending me condolence >and wish me luck to be a functional member of the society again). I decided >I should give it one more try. This time, if you know the solution, please >give me a hand. > >Here comes the problem: > >I am using a 12MHz AT with 3 meg RAM (1 meg on board and 2 meg on a no-name >RAM board). The memory was set to 640K conventional memory, 384k extentded >memory (used as cache) and 2048K expanded memory. But when I try to run >Desqview, problems came up. The Expanded Memory row in the memory status >program will show that: Totol Memory :2048K, Total Available: 2048K, >Largest Available : 0 k. I don't think the problem lies on the EMM 4.0 >driver because Norton Utilities and Window 286 both recognize the fact that >I have 2048K of Expanded memory. BTW, Pagemaker used very little (about 512K) >of the expanded memory when it is running. It seems to prefer its own temp >file. Do you guys know what the problems are? > >Appreciate any help that I can get. Thanks! > It might help if you gave the model of the card. I will tell you my experience though. I bought an Everex RAM3000 for my 16Mhz AT clone. Never did get the thing to work. As long as the card was installed (I changed chips, tried different configuarations, you name it) I would get spurious parity errors and hung system. I took it back where I got it (Fry's) and they tested it. It did the same thing in their machine (completely different machine). So I figure it was a bad card. I got a new one and guess what! Same thing! So apparently there was either a bad batch of cards, or they have serious compatibility problems with a number of machines. I exchanged it for an Intel Aboveboard (a little higher priced) and it works great. Beware of Everex Ram3000. It certainly wasn't the vendor's fault (Fry's). In fact, they were very good about the whole thing. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254 ------------------------- In a dictatorship, people suffer without complaining. In a democracy, people complain without suffering.