larry@palan.uucp (Larry Strickland) (05/13/91)
Due to a machine rotation, I'm now the owner of an Intel 302 (301?) 386 box. It's a 16 MHz 386 with a 287 co-processor and 2.5 Meg of high speed memory (512K on the motherboard, 2 Meg on a 32-bit card). I'm attempting to use QEMM 5.11 with it, my 100 Meg RLL drive and my Paradise EGA card; and then attempting to load and run Windows in 386 enchanced mode. Windows does load in 386 enhanced mode if you use HIMEM.SYS, but I'm trying to get back some memory and simulate Expanded RAM for other apps. My current QEMM line is (and I believe it's in the running for longest yet): DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM.SYS NO NOVIDEOFILL RAM ROM NS NT NOSH X=0000-3FFF X=A000-DFFF QEMM comes up like this and appears to work fine until I boot Windows, then I get the error message: LoadHi:Sys_Critical_Init Fails and am dropped back to the C prompt. As I said, this DOES work if HIMEM.SYS is used instead. I've tried various sub- and super- sets of the above line and used MFT to scan memory, but all to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas of what might be going on? -larry