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From: sbdx@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ronggang Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: MS windows and AST Rampage 286/512K
Summary: Windows 2.03 messes up memory!
Keywords: Windows Smartdrv, memory
 I have been plagued by this problem for quite a while: I use an AST Rampage
Message-ID: <42e2da88.1029d@aspen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 89 17:27:00 GMT
References: <25310@amdcad.AMD.COM> <11424@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: sbdx@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ronggang Zhang)
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is used to back fill my system from 512K to 640K. The remaining 386K is used
via Windows Smartdrv.sys to speed up the hard disk read/write. So at bootup
time, the system has 640K conventional memory and 0K free expanded memory. The
system is speeded up considerably for all applications including Windows. But
if I use Windows for a while and exit from it, the system becomes incredibly
slow, even slower than the system would perform without any memory expansion. 
I have an utility program to check memory allocations so I run it after I
exit from Windows. I find that every time I enter Windows and exit, 
some memory is freed. This is true even if I just enter it and exit without
running any programs. Could someone give me a hand? I really appreciate it.