acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook) (06/25/91)
I just set up MS DOS 5 on my box and am having some problems getting DOS to load high. I have a 286 w/ 4MB RAM, 80MB of hard disk. What I did was initially re-low-level formatted the drive, then used DOS 5 fdisk to set up partitions, then formatted. (I used to be using DOS 3.3 and some ancient disk partitioning software, which I wanted to get rid of, for it used up RAM, and was no longer really necessary). So my hard disk is totally clean. In the config.sys file, I put the commands : device = himem.sys dos=high files=20 buffers=40 and that's it. When the computer boots up, Himem returns a message saying "High Memory Area Available", but when it attempts to load dos high, I get an error message saying "HMA not available, loading dos low". What gives here ? Any ideas? Or should I just bite the bullet and call MS tech support and wait on the phone for 30minutes to an hour for a technician? :-) Thanks Andy Cook acook@athena.mit.edu
rider@geloser.CAM.ORG (Serge Ayotte) (06/27/91)
acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook) writes: [part deleted] > clean. In the config.sys file, I put the commands : > device = himem.sys > dos=high > files=20 > buffers=40 > and that's it. When the computer boots up, Himem returns a message saying > "High Memory Area Available", but when it attempts to load dos high, I get > an error message saying "HMA not available, loading dos low". What gives > here ? Any ideas? Or should I just bite the bullet and call MS tech > support and wait on the phone for 30minutes to an hour for a technician? :-) > > Thanks > > Andy Cook > acook@athena.mit.edu Andy, this is coming from someone that's not TOTALLY in the know, but I have a 286 too and your config.sys is close to mine. NOw for the $1000 question... What type of MEMORY your 4 megs are, 'cause himem works ONLY with eXTended memory. And are you sure that the driver IS in your root (or simply but the path, i.e. device=c:\dos\himem.sys). That's the only thing that comes to my mind after 2 weeks of playing with DOS 5 and reading the post on CI$ in their section... Hope this help, and if you wan to comment to me, please do so in EMAIL since I'll be loosing my phone 'cause of moving for a week and my feeder will not let news accumulate for a week... MAil is OK, but then you can always send it to my CI$ box and I'll get it as soon as I'm back online... TCTTYL! See You around the 'Net!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |INTERNET->rider@geloser.CAM.ORG CI$->76307.3545@compuserve.com| | Matrix Rider Serge Ayotte | | Gentleman Loser System (private), Montreal/Quebec/Canada | ----------------------------------------------------------------------