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From: price@chakra.unl.edu (Chad Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Zenith horror stories needed quickly, please
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Date: 27 Oct 90 16:54:33 GMT
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In <11167@hubcap.clemson.edu> rwberry@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert W Berry) writes:

>wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:

>>I've never been able to get EMS to work.

>I have 640k of EMS that works with no hitch.  Did you buy your board
>from Zenith.  (I've had both a Zenith board and an AST board, and both
>of them performed flawlessly.)

I have NO horror story either & have a Z-158 & a 386-16.

However, the 158 is not 100% compatible with all EMS cards - to get mine
to work, I had to 1) remove the last row of memory chips (512-768K) and use
the ones on the EMS card to fill in base memory; and 2) tell Word Perfect 5.1
that I had EMS 3.2 rather than the 4.0 the EMS vendor claimed.

Probelms were:
	1) there was a memory address conflict between the Zenith chips in the
last bank and the EMS card
	2) The EMS vendor was selling an EMS 4.0 driver that did not actually
meet the 4.0 specs.

	Chad PRice
	price@fergvax.unl.edu