Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mms00786 From: mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Expanded memory simulators Message-ID: <111700102@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 10 Jun 89 22:52:00 GMT References: <3981@utastro.UUCP> Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:utastro.UUCP:3981:uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:111700102:000:532 Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mms00786 Jun 10 17:52:00 1989 In response to MS-Works locking up tighter than a drum: I haven't tried EMS40 yet, but I just got a AT compatible, with a lot of toys: EMS 4.0 driver, relocate video bios, relocate regular bios etc. It seems everyone out there thinks that this 384K chunk was allocated by IBM for their particular product from the very start, so of course nothing works. In particular, I have had a lot of problems with Smartdrv.sys. So I simply don't use it. Hope removing that from your config.sys file helps. Milan mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu.