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From: aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Aaron Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Problems with DOS 5.0 SmartDrive/HIMEM (?)
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.184828.26915@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Jun 91 18:48:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: leland.1991Jun25.184828.26915
Sender: Aaron Wallace
Reply-To: aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Aaron Wallace)
Organization: Stanford University
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Hi!

Just put DOS 5 on my machine and started getting a lot of UAEs in Windows.
I normally get *very* few (1 every week or two at most).  Someone posted
here that they suspected that the problem was in SmartDrive.  I replaced it
and the UAEs still came.  So I replaced HIMEM with the Win 3 one as well.
This seems to do much better, but I'll have to play with it more, first.

Has anyone else had problems with the new SmartDrive/HIMEM?  My system is:

386sx-20, 6 Meg, 66 Mb RLL HD, Trident VGA, AMI Bios, C+T chipset.

Why would MS make these drivers less stable?

Bonus not-related-to-anything-here question: why might a True Blue AT
keyboard (the one with the Ctrl key in the right place, parked next to
the A key) not work on my system, while a MaxiSwitch of ancient vintage
does?  The AT kbd works fine on other AMI-BIOS systems I tested...

Aaron Wallace