enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au (02/19/91)
I'm having a problem running Windows in enhanced mode using QEMM386. The STARTUP screen appears, then after a pause, Windows dumps back to DOS. I am only using the RAM option and have 4MB of memory with a 2MB SMARTDRIVE. I have a 386-25 machine. Any clues? Please POST to me. Thanx in advance. Regards Peter ----------------------------------------------- ENZERINKP@TOPAZ.UCQ.EDU.AU
gregf@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Greg Farrell) (02/21/91)
In comp.windows.ms, enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au writes:
I'm having a problem running Windows in enhanced mode using QEMM386.
The STARTUP screen appears, then after a pause, Windows dumps back to DOS.
I am only using the RAM option and have 4MB of memory with a 2MB SMARTDRIVE.
I have a 386-25 machine. Any clues? Please POST to me. Thanx in advance.
Regards Peter
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Peter - I don't know how much this will help, but I am using QEMM v. 5.11 dated 9-7-90, with the Optimize feature. - Greg:
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config.sys
BREAK=OFF
DEVICE=D:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM
BUFFERS=1
FILES=30
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P /MSG
DEVICE=D:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\WIN3\SMARTDRV.SYS 2048 512
DEVICE=D:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 C:\MOUSE.SYS
autoexec.bat
@ECHO OFF
CLS
SET PATH=D:\QEMM;D:\CSOFT
KCARD A
D:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:3 KEYCON
PROMPT $P$G
PATH=C:\;C:\PSMENU;C:\WIN3;D:\QEMM;C:\QM;D:\PCT;C:\GAMES;D:\;D:\DOS;D:\UTIL;c:\pbrush;C:\WP51;D:\G4
FASTATKB 00
SET TEMP=C:\WIN3\TEMP
MENUmwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Craig Nelson) (02/21/91)
gregf@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Greg Farrell) writes: >In comp.windows.ms, enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au writes: > I'm having a problem running Windows in enhanced mode using QEMM386. > The STARTUP screen appears, then after a pause, Windows dumps back to DOS. > I am only using the RAM option and have 4MB of memory with a 2MB SMARTDRIVE. > I have a 386-25 machine. Any clues? Please POST to me. Thanx in advance. > Regards Peter > ------ > Peter - I don't know how much this will help, but I am using QEMM v. 5.11 dated 9-7-90, with the Optimize feature. - Greg: > > ----------------------------------------- I agree with Greg. I am runnin QEMM 5.11 on a 386/25 and a 1.5MB lighting drive (its one hell of alot faster than SmartDrv). I have no problems with Windows in enhanced mode. Check your version, your software, and the boot up options again. C Nelson (mwizard@eecs.ee.pdx.edu)
jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu (Generic User) (02/22/91)
In article <5420003@hpnmdla.HP.COM> gregf@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Greg Farrell) writes: >I'm having a problem running Windows in enhanced mode using QEMM386. >The STARTUP screen appears, then after a pause, Windows dumps back to DOS. >I am only using the RAM option and have 4MB of memory with a 2MB SMARTDRIVE. > >I have a 386-25 machine. Any clues? Please POST to me. Thanx in advance. I've found that the QEMM/Enhanced mode combo just works on some machines, and doesn't work on others. For instance, it doesn't work at all on the machine in my room (it gives me an exception #13, which I haven't seen on anybody else's...) In the school's PC Lab, my problem is even more bizarre: It loads fine until I LOG IN to the Novell SFT 2.15 network. Loading IPX and XMSNET4 doesn't matter; it only fails if I log into the network. Standard mode still works. QEMM 5.11 claims to be happy with Win3 enhanced, but I've found that it really varies. If it doesn't like your machine, you're hosed. -- Jason Merrill jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu
eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu (Eugene Wang) (02/22/91)
>>>>> On 19 Feb 91 02:15:05 GMT,enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au > I'm having a problem running Windows in enhanced mode using QEMM386. > The STARTUP screen appears, then after a pause, Windows dumps back to DOS. > I am only using the RAM option and have 4MB of memory with a 2MB SMARTDRIVE. > I have a 386-25 machine. Any clues? Please POST to me. Thanx in advance. > Regards Peter More likely, you are having a conflict between your video card and QEMM. Your video card is probably using an `extra' 32K to do bank switching for increased speed/resolutions. QEMM does not expect this memory to be used so QEMM takes it and declares it a High Memory region. When Windows starts up, the video card will try to access this 32K and finds that it has been taken over by QEMM, which causes Windows to crash. The extra 32K region used by the video card is usually B000-B7FF. Put 'X=B000-B7FF' in the QEMM386 options and reboot. I had this problem and it drove me crazy for a while. -- Eugene Wang eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu
lhotka@alumni.colorado.edu (Doug Lhotka) (02/26/91)
I've got QEMM v 5.11 running with Windows 3.0 and have an interesting problem. When using the himem.sys provided with windows, I can run Procomm and Wordperfect at the same time (as an example). No problems at all. But when I use QEMM, I can't run both, and get an 'insufficient memory' message asking me to close other applications (the about program manager function indicates about 13 mb of available memory). Also QEMM is noticably SLOWER than himem.sys. Any ideas? Please respond via E-Mail Thanks in advance, Doug
bjahn@wam.umd.edu (Byung-Joon Ahn) (04/06/91)
I've heard that QEMM 5.11 is compatible with Win3.0. What problems does v.5.1 have and what improvements have been made to v5.11? Also, does anyone know of program that runs unders Win3.0 that can format floppies, while you do other work? Thanks in advance! B.J.