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From: hilander@eclectic.COM (The Highlander)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: EMS/XMS board
Keywords: Memory XMS YUCK Windows Darn
Message-ID: <213@eclectic.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 91 05:12:57 GMT
Organization: Eclectic Associates, Inc.
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I own an old EMS/XMS add on BOCORAM AT 286 board
it can be 2 megs of Expanded memory lim v3.2
or 4 megs of Extended memory 

i tried both configurations
but windows still crashes in standard mode
i have a 286 with 1 meg of memory..
i had to disable the 386 extended memory on my motherboard
to allow the extended memory to work properly

i have asked several people for help
they said my EMS board was too old.. and that the hardware memory manager is outdated
if this is so.. is there anything i can do?
i don't think a software solution can help..hmmm maybe it can
are there any good EMM (extended memory managers ) out there for 
286's that can take over all the extended memory and work with windows?
i tried QEMM ,VRAM,and QRAM... maybe an old version of QEMM might work?
but i think it is definitely hardware-wise-the problem..
my ems board is archaic.. it came out when 286's were popular..
that is why it is called the bocaram ems board 286 AT
i even called Bocaram and they have discontinued the model a few years ago
and can't offer any help

All those 4 megs of extended memory and all windows does with it is lock up
when booting up windows..or whilst it is 2 minutes into it

any solutions?

thanx!

Marc Hiland
ps i would appreciate it if you could mail me at
hilander@eclectic.com
since i do not get the mail feeds that often.. there are old.. 
and we haven't enuff disk space to keep up sometimes..