bgebby@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian P Gebby) (05/30/91)
Help! I've been sweating over this problem for a long time now. I have a 80286/12MHz system with 2MB of expanded memory and 1MB of onboard memory base. The problem is Windows acknowledges the memory in Real Mode but it won't acknowledge the memory in Standard Mode. I have a BOCA AT Plus Memory Board with full LIM EMS 4.0 compatability and the HIMEM.YS driver provided with Windows 3.0.: 4/5/90 2.60.version. Dos date (from 'dir') -- 5/1/90. (which I heard was the crrect file to use.) Now I can't run Excel 3.0 and It's really getting aggraaating! Help! Brian Gebby | "The computer is like an Old Testament God, bgebby@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu| lots of rules and little mercy." -- aj583@po.cwru.edu | John Campbell.
Paul D. Shan <PDS2@psuvm.psu.edu> (05/30/91)
In article <1991May29.200439.27697@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, bgebby@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian P Gebby) says: > >Help! > >I've been sweating over this problem for a long time now. >I have a 80286/12MHz system with 2MB of expanded memory and 1MB of >onboard memory base. The problem is Windows acknowledges the memory >in Real Mode but it won't acknowledge the memory in Standard Mode. > Windows only uses Expanded memory in Real mode. In Standard and 386 Enhanced, Windows only uses Extended RAM. You said that you have a BOCA RAM board. You should be able to configure that as extended RAM. By the way, HIMEM.SYS is an Extended memory manager. If you don't have any extended memory in your system, HIMEM will not load. Hope this helps. Paul D. Shan Microcomputer and Personal Workstation Support Center for Academic Computing 12 Willard Building University Park, PA 16802 (814) 863-4356 PDS2@PSUVM.psu.edu
fearlof@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Peter Cadoret) (05/31/91)
bgebby@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian P Gebby) writes: > I've been sweating over this problem for a long time now. > I have a 80286/12MHz system with 2MB of expanded memory and 1MB of > onboard memory base. The problem is Windows acknowledges the memory > in real mode but won't acknowledge the memory in standard mode. This is because windows doesn't use expanded memory in standard mode....(because it's too slow (or so it says in the user's guide)) The best suggestion I can give is to reconfigure your BOCA board to give you some extended memory...., but in any case I learned this fact the hard way too...had to go out and buy a sort of real computer.....Fearlof Peter Cadoret fearlof@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca Edmonton Remote Systems: Serving Northern Alberta since 1982
rudih@msb.com (Rudi Halbright) (06/01/91)
In article <1991May29.200439.27697@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> bgebby@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian P Gebby) writes: >Help! > >I've been sweating over this problem for a long time now. >I have a 80286/12MHz system with 2MB of expanded memory and 1MB of >onboard memory base. The problem is Windows acknowledges the memory >in Real Mode but it won't acknowledge the memory in Standard Mode. > >I have a BOCA AT Plus Memory Board with full LIM EMS 4.0 compatability >and the HIMEM.YS driver provided with Windows 3.0.: 4/5/90 2.60.version. >Dos date (from 'dir') -- 5/1/90. (which I heard was the crrect file to use.) > >Now I can't run Excel 3.0 and It's really getting aggraaating! > >Help! > >Brian Gebby | "The computer is like an Old Testament God, >bgebby@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu| lots of rules and little mercy." -- >aj583@po.cwru.edu | John Campbell. Are you configuring the memory as expanded? If so, try to use windows without using the EMM driver, that way all of the memory will be configured as extended which is what you need to use standard mode. Good luck! Rudi Halbright rudih@msb.com
user2@cgevs3.cem.msu.edu (Stephen Medlin) (06/02/91)
In article <1991May29.200439.27697@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, bgebby@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian P Gebby) writes: >Help! > >I've been sweating over this problem for a long time now. >I have a 80286/12MHz system with 2MB of expanded memory and 1MB of >onboard memory base. The problem is Windows acknowledges the memory >in Real Mode but it won't acknowledge the memory in Standard Mode. > >I have a BOCA AT Plus Memory Board with full LIM EMS 4.0 compatability >and the HIMEM.YS driver provided with Windows 3.0.: 4/5/90 2.60.version. >Dos date (from 'dir') -- 5/1/90. (which I heard was the crrect file to use.) > >Now I can't run Excel 3.0 and It's really getting aggraaating! I have a BOCA AT Plus Memory board in my AT (4MB). I had to make sure that I went through the Boca Setup to let my computer know that what memory I had. You have to (I am pretty sure) configure it all as Extended memory before Windows will use it. What I have done is use MBOOT (Multiple boot program from PC-Mag) so that my computer will boot up with all Extended memory if I'm using Windows or convert it to expanded memory if using non-Win program. BTW, I discovered that extended memory on the Boca board is significantly faster than expanded memory. Stephen Medlin
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (06/03/91)
From: rudih@msb.com (Rudi Halbright) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Cannot access EMS memory in Standard Mode! Message-ID: <1991May31.224916.12866@msb.com> Date: 31 May 91 22:49:16 GMT What does this have to do with window systems in general? Please keep MS Windows-specific discussions in comp.windows.ms!