Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!bu.edu!bucsf.bu.edu!eggbert From: eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu (Eugene Wang) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: WINDOWS AND QEMM? Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 04:05:33 GMT References: <1991Feb19.121707.6958@topaz.ucq.edu.au> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Boston University Lines: 27 In-reply-to: enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au's message of 19 Feb 91 02:15:05 GMT >>>>> On 19 Feb 91 02:15:05 GMT,enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au > I'm having a problem running Windows in enhanced mode using QEMM386. > The STARTUP screen appears, then after a pause, Windows dumps back to DOS. > I am only using the RAM option and have 4MB of memory with a 2MB SMARTDRIVE. > I have a 386-25 machine. Any clues? Please POST to me. Thanx in advance. > Regards Peter More likely, you are having a conflict between your video card and QEMM. Your video card is probably using an `extra' 32K to do bank switching for increased speed/resolutions. QEMM does not expect this memory to be used so QEMM takes it and declares it a High Memory region. When Windows starts up, the video card will try to access this 32K and finds that it has been taken over by QEMM, which causes Windows to crash. The extra 32K region used by the video card is usually B000-B7FF. Put 'X=B000-B7FF' in the QEMM386 options and reboot. I had this problem and it drove me crazy for a while. -- Eugene Wang eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu