jonathan@procase.uucp (Jonathan Ganz) (05/09/91)
I'm having an interesting and frustrating problem with the following combination of hardware and software: 16Mhz/286 AllCharge Card Desqview Dos 3.3 4 meg on motherboard As far as I've been able to determine, I'm using the latest versions of everything except qext.sys. I'm using an old version of this (circa 1988) because all newer versions cause a system hang upon exiting Desqview. In no particular order, I get the following amount of available High Ram, which naturally directly affects available memory. Other numbers do come up from time to time, but these are the most frequent. It doesn't seem to matter if I <Ctrl><Alt><Del> or turn off the power. At first I suspected it had something to do with truncating the memory test (pressing <esc> during the initial test), but it was hokum. (FYI - The bootsys command mentioned below gives me a choice about the particular kind of system I'm left with after the boot, and has never given me any grief. Also, I renamed some of the device drivers to keep things organized.) Any and all help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please email me directly as indicated in my sig, and I'll post the results. (This is a rather long message, and I don't want to clog things up more than necessary!) Typical sequence of boot cycles: boot system High Ram Created: 128K (B000-B3FF, C800-CBFF, D000-E7FF) boot system High Ram Created: 160K (B000-B7FF, C800-CBFF) <- I usually live with either this or the following one, otherwise I keep rebooting until I get this, the next, or the last in this list. boot system High Ram Created: 160K (B000-B7FF, C400-CBFF, D000-E7FF) boot system High Ram Created: 144K (B000-B7FF, C400-CBFF, D000-E7FF) boot system High Ram Created: 176K (B000-B7FF, C400-E7FF) <- This is the best I ever get, which IMHO is pretty good! --------cut here for autoexec.bat file ----------- echo off bootsys >NUL: if errorlevel 8 goto simple_system if errorlevel 7 goto tape_backup if errorlevel 6 goto quick_fax if errorlevel 5 goto printer_only if errorlevel 4 goto fax_scanner if errorlevel 3 goto fax_scanner_printer if errorlevel 2 goto non_graphics_dv if errorlevel 1 goto graphics_dv echo boot.sys is not loaded! goto done :graphics_dv loadhi qbuffers=30 loadhi qfiles +20 loadhi qldrive=h loadhi d:\dos\dvansi loadhi d:\dos\msmouse /1 break=on path=c:\;d:\dos;d:\dv;d:\ws;d:\qram;c:\xtpro;c:\batch;d:\nu;d:\mouse prompt $d$_$p$g $ fastopen c: d: loadhi dosedit subst f: d:\wp51\files subst g: d:\hold\cis subst h: d:\sc5 ls300a/i308 loadhi timepark 5 loadhi vidram on d goto done :non_graphics_dv loadhi qbuffers=30 loadhi qfiles +20 loadhi qldrive=h loadhi d:\dos\dvansi loadhi d:\dos\msmouse /1 break=on path=c:\;d:\dos;d:\dv;d:\ws;d:\qram;c:\xtpro;c:\batch;d:\nu;d:\mouse prompt $d$_$p$g $ fastopen c: d: loadhi dosedit subst e: d:\wp51\files subst f: d:\hold\cis subst g: d:\sc5 loadhi timepark 5 loadhi vidram on vidram on ov d goto done :fax_scanner_printer loadhi qbuffers=30 loadhi qfiles +20 loadhi qldrive=h loadhi d:\dos\dvansi break=on path=c:\;d:\dos;d:\dv;d:\ws;d:\qram;c:\xtpro;c:\batch;d:\nu;e:\mouse prompt $d$_$p$g $ fastopen c: d: loadhi dosedit ls300a/i308 loadhi oldmode LPT1:,,P pause d:\dos\dsu.exe c:\fontset1.set pause loadhi timepark 5 loadhi vidram on fax d goto done :fax_scanner loadhi qbuffers=30 loadhi qfiles +20 loadhi qldrive=h loadhi d:\dos\dvansi loadhi d:\dos\msmouse /1 break=on path=c:\;d:\dos;d:\dv;d:\ws;d:\qram;c:\xtpro;c:\batch;e:\nu;d:\mouse prompt $d$_$p$g $ fastopen c: d: loadhi dosedit subst e: d:\wp51\files subst f: d:\hold\cis subst g: d:\sc5 ls300a/i308 loadhi timepark 5 loadhi vidram on fax d goto done :printer_only loadhi qbuffers=30 loadhi qfiles +20 loadhi qldrive=h loadhi d:\dos\dvansi loadhi d:\dos\msmouse /1 break=on path=c:\;d:\dos;d:\dv;d:\ws;d:\qram;c:\xtpro;c:\batch;d:\nu;d:\mouse prompt $d$_$p$g $ fastopen c: d: loadhi dosedit subst e: d:\wp51\files subst f: d:\hold\cis subst g: d:\sc5 ls300a/i308 loadhi oldmode LPT1:,,P pause d:\dos\dsu.exe c:\fontset1.set pause loadhi timepark 5 loadhi vidram on d goto done :quick_fax loadhi qbuffers=30 loadhi qfiles +20 loadhi qldrive=h loadhi d:\dos\dvansi break=on path=c:\;d:\dos;d:\dv;d:\ws;d:\qram;c:\xtpro;c:\batch;d:\nu;d:\mouse prompt $d$_$p$g $ fastopen c: d: loadhi dosedit ls300a/i308 loadhi timepark 5 loadhi vidram on d: cd\fax fax c: goto done :tape_backup break=on path=c:\;c:\xtpro;d:\nu;c:\batch;d:\dv;d:\ws;d:\dos;d:\qram;d:\mouse prompt $d$_$p$g $ dosedit echo Load Tape Cartridge into Drive pause qs echo Please remember to COLD boot this system goto done :simple_system break=on path=c:\;c:\xtpro;d:\nu;c:\batch;d:\dv;d:\ws;d:\dos;d:\qram;d:\mouse prompt $d$_$p$g $ dosedit :done -------cut here for config.sys file------------- STACKS=0,0 BUFFERS=1 FILES=20 Device=HARDRIVE.SYS Device=boot.sys /CX0A /D6 /T10 /L20 /U^ /S2 Device=TOP ^Select the ^System ^Configuration Device=boot.1 ^Desqview (^Graphics) Device=QEXT.SYS /VD=2.0 Device=rem QuarterDeck's DesqView Device=c:\vdisk.sys 512 /E Device=ALLEMM4.SYS Device=rem AllCharge Card Memory Manager Device=QRAM.SYS Device=rem QuarterDeck's High Memory Manager Device=c:\loadhi.sys c:\ls300.sys Device=rem QRAM's High Memory driver Device=rem Princeton Scanner driver Device=boot.2 ^Desqview (non-^Graphics) Device=QEXT.SYS /VD=2.0 Device=rem QuarterDeck's DesqView Device=c:\vdisk.sys 512 /E Device=ALLEMM4.SYS Device=rem AllCharge Card Memory Manager Device=QRAM.SYS Device=rem QuarterDeck's High Memory Manager Device=boot.3 ^Fax ^Scanner ^Printer Device=QEXT.SYS /VD=2.0 Device=rem QuarterDeck's DesqView Device=c:\vdisk.sys 512 /E Device=ALLEMM4.SYS Device=rem AllCharge Card Memory Manager Device=QRAM.SYS Device=rem QuarterDeck's High Memory Manager Device=c:\loadhi.sys c:\ls300.sys Device=rem QRAM's High Memory driver Device=rem Princeton Scanner driver Device=boot.4 ^Fax ^Scanner Device=QEXT.SYS /VD=2.0 Device=rem QuarterDeck's DesqView Device=c:\vdisk.sys 512 /E Device=ALLEMM4.SYS Device=rem AllCharge Card Memory Manager Device=QRAM.SYS Device=rem QuarterDeck's High Memory Manager Device=c:\loadhi.sys c:\ls300.sys Device=rem QRAM's High Memory driver Device=rem Princeton Scanner driver Device=boot.5 ^Printer Device=QEXT.SYS /VD=2.0 Device=rem QuarterDeck's DesqView Device=c:\vdisk.sys 512 /E Device=ALLEMM4.SYS Device=rem AllCharge Card Memory Manager Device=QRAM.SYS Device=rem QuarterDeck's High Memory Manager Device=rem QRAM's High Memory Device=boot.6 ^Quick ^Start ^Fax (default from ^Power ^Loss) Device=QEXT.SYS Device=rem QuarterDeck's DesqView Device=ALLEMM4.SYS Device=rem AllCharge Card Memory Manager Device=QRAM.SYS Device=rem QuarterDeck's High Memory Manager Device=c:\loadhi.sys c:\ls300.sys Device=rem QRAM's High Memory Device=boot.7 ^Tape ^Backup ^System buffers=040 files=030 Device=boot.8 ^Simple ^System buffers=040 files=030 Device=boot.end ----------cut here---------------- NAME: Jonathan E. 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