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From: dlf@thumpr.UUCP (Dave Fritsche 438-3726)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: QEMM386 problem
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Date: 21 Sep 89 22:28:54 GMT
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In article <674@windy.dsir.govt.nz> SRWMJGB@windy.dsir.govt.nz (John Burnell, Applied Maths Division, DSIR) writes:
>Whenever I install the driver QEMM.SYS in my CONFIG.SYS it locks the 
>machine up, and the only way out is to reboot.
>
>I am using a no-name '386 clone with a Phoenix 386 Bios V1.10 (dated January
>1988), 4Mb of memory and a VGA card.

We bought a Micronics 386 mother board with Phoenix Bios V1.10.07 (the
'.07' at the end IS significant).  When installing QEMM.SYS, the system
reacted exactly the same way you described.  Another identical system,
but with Award BIOS worked just fine.

I called QuarterDeck and asked about the problem.  The answer was that
QEMM will work with Phoenix BIOS versions 1.10.10 and above.  Phoenix
did indeed have a bug in the earlier versions of BIOS that prevented
QEMM from working properly.  Don't know exactly why it didn't work.
Just know that upgrading the Phoenix BIOS to 1.10.10 solved the problem.

73 . . . Dave Fritsche (wb8zxu)