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From: a_rubin@dn71.css.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: QEMM386 Problem - Not related to windows
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.082856.220@biivax.dp.beckman.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 15:28:54 GMT
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In <774@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil> cgaeth@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Christopher Gaeth) writes:
>Hello again netters,

>      Thanks again to who have responded to my numerous questions.  I
>have yet another one.

>      I put a new video card in my system and it conflicted with
>QEMM386.sys causing the machine to lock up.  I booted from my back up
>boot disk and stripped all the QEMM stuff out of the config.sys and 
>autoexec.bat and rebooted my system , no problem.  So then I re-installed 
>QEMM using the defualt setting and know I get almost all the way through
>the boot up and I get this "Bad or Missing Command Interpreter".  Well
>according to my dos manual this means that it can't find command.com.  But
>if I take QEMM386.sys out of my config.sys I have no problem.  Does anyone
>have any suggestions?  I'm throughly lost.  Please post here or e-mail direct.

I suspect your video card has it's own RAM, which QEMM386 doesn't recognize. 
Video ROM/RAM is usually located around C000 (from my experience -- your mileage
may vary.).  Try "EXCLUDE=C000-C3FF" or "ADAPTERRRAM=C000-C3FF".

>Thank you.

You're welcome.
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