sweh@tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris) (06/30/91)
Dear all DesqView (well QEMM386 really) and Windows3 wizards,
Please help!
I am trying to get QEMM386 and Win/3 to co-exist happily, and am running
into problems.
Firstly the problem:
If I used loadhi and load a lot of TSR's into High RAM and then run
Win3 in Enhanced mode it crashes after displaying the startup screen.
Sometimes it freezes the whole computer, sometimes (rarely) it crashes to DOS
in graphics mode with funny messages.
The hardware:
Its a TriGem 386V with 4MB Ram, ESDI disk and VGA.
The configuration:
In config.sys:
DEVICE=D:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM
BUFFERS=1
FILES=30
STACKS=0,0
country=044,437,c:\dos\country.sys
device=d:\qemm\loadhi.sys D:\WINDOWS\smartdrv.sys 1024 512
device=d:\qemm\loadhi.sys c:\dos\ansi.sys
device=d:\qemm\loadhi.sys d:\4dos\keystack.sys
break=on
shell=c:\4dos.com /l:d:\4dos /s:b /e:600 /p
In autoexec.bat:
@echo off
cls
d:\qemm\loadhi d:\qemm\buffers=10
set PATH=D:\WINDOWS;d:\qemm;C:\BIN;c:\links;C:\USR\BIN;C:\DOS
echo Loading TSRs
d:\qemm\loadhi exelink > nul
echo EXELINK
d:\qemm\loadhi keyfix > nul
echo KEYFIX
rem d:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 d:\mouse1\mouse > nul
rem echo MICROSOFT MOUSE
d:\qemm\loadhi d:\clockwor\simon /i /p
echo SIMON (ALT-TAB)
loadbtm on
ramfree
echo Programming function keys
fkey /r fkeyfile
echo Setting environment...
set /r setfile
echo Extensions known: .c .doc .fil .h .ksh .pas .wp
alias /r aliases
echo.
date
thisday
fortune
[Before anybody asks, no I haven't registered 4DOS or Simon yet. I am
testing these programs out. I like both of them (especially 4DOS)]
If I load the TSR's low then win3 is quite happy and runs around enjoying
itself. But if I loadhi then I get a DOS shell with 592K free before
entering windows.
I guess this means there is a memory conflict in the 640-1024K region
where Win3 is not recognising the memory as being taken.
Manifest reports this region thus:
A000-AFFF Vga graphics
B000-B7FF High RAM
B800-BFFF VGA text
C000-C7FF View ROM
C800-CB7F Disk ROM (ESDI disks so a seperate ROM BIOS)
CC00-E7FF High RAM
E800-F7FF Page Frame
F800-FFFF System ROM
I've tried all the obvious, but since the Manuals for both Windows and
QEMM are pretty awful as reference manuals there could easily be info I've
overlooked. I've even tried putting EMMExclude=CC00-E7FF in my SYSTEM.INI
but this didn't help.
I'm not too worried about losing some memory to Windows, but I want the
most possible for DOS for the times I don't want windows.
If people can help, please let me know by email to either the following
addresses (in all their glory)
sweh@papa.attmail.com
...!internet!attmail!papa!sweh
...!ukc!axion!tharr!sweh
sweh@tharr.UUCP
tharr!sweh@ukc.ac.uk
sweh%tharr.UUCP@axion.bt.co.ac
Thanks for your time, and any reply you may have.
--
Stephen Harris
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