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From: gt0652b@prism.gatech.EDU (I don't know man, he was just here)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Help! HIMEM.SYS causes key presses to show up as DOUBLE
Message-ID: <30519@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 4 Jun 91 00:02:32 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.175636.7779@news.miami.edu>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <1991Jun3.175636.7779@news.miami.edu> acidec@umbio.med.miami.edu (Artur Cideciyan) writes:
>I use a 80286/12 MHz with 1 Meg of memory & ATI VGA wonder with built
>in bus mouse. I am running DR DOS 5.0.
>
>I load HIMEM.SYS only and nothing else, run Windows 3.0. It runs
>in standard mode with about 620K at start up. In any one of the
>Windows applications (e.g. Calculator) the keys pressed on the
>keyboard sometimes show up DOUBLE ... as if a character is sent to
>the window for both the press and the release of the key.

The problem doesn't seem to be with Himem.sys, but rather the fact
that windows is running in standard mode. In stanard mode the system
addresses all of the 1 meg of ram as specified in the specifications for
Protected Mode operation. My guess is that some hardware in your system
(maybe the bus mouse) is writing to a section of high ram used by windows.
Your mison, should you accept it, is to find confliction ram  and 
exclud it from the extened memory used by himem sys and windows.

If you have replaced any equipment since you first installed windows,
try installing windows from scratch again. Windows is supposed to 
be smart enough to catch little things like this.

If the truth won't set you free, 
then lie!

Josh Guttman

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