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From: waynet@wiffle.techbook.com (Wayne Tilton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Standard Mode ... How?!?!?
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Date: 6 Feb 91 01:29:42 GMT
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6600bori@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Boris Burtin) writes:

> In article <1991Feb5.025352.7273@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> rlg6@po.CWRU.Edu (Rober
> 
> 
> >   Hi! I'm running a 386sx with 1M ram.
> >I'm supposed to be able to run in standard mode w/ 1Meg, I can't!
> >Plain and simple. I've tried to set-up himem.sys, but I get an error -
> >no extended memory found or something like that.
> >  Could someone please tell me how to set-up himem/emm386 to allow 
> >standard mode? (I would really like to use WinQVTNet!)
> 
> Have you tried running windows as "win /s"?  I have noticed that with my
> 2 megs of ram, I have to force my computer into enhanced mode; maybe you
> have to force it into standard?

Another possibility is that your extra memory is being used as shadow
ram, making it unavailable to Windows.  Depending on your BIOS and
chipset, you may be able to turn off the shadow ram option, giving
you the extended memory that HIMEM.SYS wants.  On my system with an
AMI BIOS, you can do this by invoking setup at power up but I've
seen others that you had to use special software and even others
that you couldn't do it on at all.

Wayne