colaluca@cs.utexas.edu (Mark Colaluca) (05/06/91)
I have encountered a problem with QEMM and Windows. If I want to load my Stacker.com device driver (39K) into high memory, I have to use space in either D000-DFFF or E000-EFFF. As some of you might know, the page frame for QEMM must take up 64K of contiguous high memory, usually at E000-EFFF. Windows, however, seems to crash when the page frame is placed here. Adding X=E000-EFFF to my QEMM device line cures this problem, but then there is no room for the stacker device driver. Does anyone know why Windows does not like an E000-EFFF page frame, and if so, how one can use D000-DFFF and cause Windows to like me having stacker in E000-EFFF. I have tried adding EMMExclude=E000-EFFF to my [386enh] section, but this doesn't help. It seems that if I try to load anything in the E000-EFFF range (be it QEMM's page frame or the stacker device driver), Windows crashes upon trying to open any Windows application. Thanks in advance for any info, e-mail responses preferred. I'll post any relevant repsonses to this newsgroup. Thanks, Mark Colaluca (colaluca@cs.utexas.edu)
brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance) (05/06/91)
In article <19727@cs.utexas.edu> colaluca@cs.utexas.edu (Mark Colaluca) writes > I have encountered a problem with QEMM and Windows. If I want to load my > Stacker.com device driver (39K) into high memory, I have to use space in > either D000-DFFF or E000-EFFF. As some of you might know, the page frame > for QEMM must take up 64K of contiguous high memory, usually at E000-EFFF. > Windows, however, seems to crash when the page frame is placed here. Adding > X=E000-EFFF to my QEMM device line cures this problem, but then there is no > room for the stacker device driver. Does anyone know why Windows does not > like an E000-EFFF page frame,.... Qemm and Windows(386 mode) do work while Qemm uses E000H-EFFFH for page frame. I suspect your problem lies with another program other then Qemm that may be conflicting with Qemm at that location. Use MFT to search through your memory. -- ******************************************************************************** Disclaimer: I don't speak for my company or myself. Mike Brim | Commodore Electronics Limited PC Analyst - System Evaluation Group | West Chester, PA 19380 Product Assurance | InterNet: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com ********************************************************************************
tonyd@hplsla.HP.COM (Tony DeMartino) (05/08/91)
There is also an EMMFrame you can add to your system.ini as well but I dont know if this will help as the EmmExclude should do the same thing. But if you are using Win3.0 in Enhanced mode, why do you need Expanded memory. Just set Qemm up for NO Ems and you will also gain your "E" page back.
cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman) (05/10/91)
In <3130065@hplsla.HP.COM> tonyd@hplsla.HP.COM (Tony DeMartino) writes: >There is also an EMMFrame you can add to your system.ini as well but I dont >know if this will help as the EmmExclude should do the same thing. But if >you are using Win3.0 in Enhanced mode, why do you need Expanded memory. Just >set Qemm up for NO Ems and you will also gain your "E" page back. Because you might want to run something outside of Windows that uses Expanded memory. Chuck -- Charles H. Chapman (GTRI/MATD) (404) 528-7588 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ************************************************************** * Home of the 1990 National Champion Ga. Tech Yellow Jackets * ************************************************************** uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!msd!cchapman Internet: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu