Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:7865 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:3757 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!drivax!drivax!liberato From: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: 386SX,HIMEM.SYS,SMARTDRV.SYS Keywords: 386SX,HIMEM.SYS,SMARTDRV.SYS Message-ID: <5GZTWCN@dri.com> Date: 5 Dec 90 21:11:11 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Digital Research, Inc., Monterey Developement Center Lines: 26 In article rgs@phadfa.ph.adfa.oz.au (Robert Smith) writes: >I have a Gateway 2000 386SX (4Meg ram) with a Video7 VGA board, and >have been having a problem with HIMEM.SYS and SMARTDRV.SYS in the >Windows 3 package... > >Basically, if I load HIMEM.SYS followed by SMARTDRV.SYS (from >consecutive lines in my CONFIG.SYS file), then whenever I do anything >else after the machine has booted, it crashes, usually displaying a >"Parity Error ???" message, followed by "System Halted"... > >Quite by accident, yesterday I hit the turbo switch on my machine which >reduced it's speed by half (from 16MHz). Suddenly everything works fine >and I can load HIMEM.SYS and SMARTDRV.SYS and do anything I want without >any problems at all. Does anyone have any clues as to what could be >causing this?... You might have your motherboard set up as "0 wait state" with ram that is not quite fast enough. I don't know how Gateway configures their systems but you should be able to enter their setup program through a key sequence during bootup. Add 1 wait state and check for any improvement. Good Luck! -- Jimmy Liberato liberato@dri.com ...uunet!drivax!liberato