Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watstat!dmurdoch From: dmurdoch@watstat.uwaterloo.ca (Duncan Murdoch) Subject: Re: DESQview 386 problem Message-ID: <1990Jun29.172054.13537@maytag.waterloo.edu> Sender: daemon@maytag.waterloo.edu (Admin) Organization: University of Waterloo References: <12972@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 90 17:20:54 GMT Lines: 14 In article <12972@shlump.nac.dec.com> simon@hpspwr.enet.dec.com (Curiosier and curiosier...) writes: > >You should also check if your system does ROM (both system and video) >shadowing. If it does, you should disable it and let QEMM do this task. >You may have a conflict between the system and QEMM trying to use the >same segments. Actually, if you've got a Chips & Technologies chipset, you lose some memory by doing this. The chipset always saves about 200K for shadowing, whether you use it or not; telling QEMM to do the shadowing costs you memory outside this 200K. At least that's the way it works in my machine... Duncan Murdoch