Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!ECNCDC!MJIM From: MJIM@ECNCDC.BITNET Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: 4Meg RAM board use in Zenith Z386 Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 90 08:34:00 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 21 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway > We have several Zenith 16 Mhz 386's with their 4-meg memory boards. > (1 Meg base, 3 megs extended/expanded depending on the switch settings) The > problem is that we cannot access the extra memory at all when we load the > Netware workstation software. If we set the switch settings for expanded > memory and use the Zenith emm.sys, the machine locks up when we try to load > any program that accesses expanded memory. The same is true when we try > setting it for extended and using qemm.sys from Desqview 386. > Has anyone out there been able to get some use out of this memory? > Mike Wohlgemuth - University of Florida Our Zenith engineer contact reports there are various releases of EMM.SYS out, and suggests only the latest one be used. The one on my most recent Zenith DOS disk is dated 6/29/89. So suggestion #1 is don't use anything older. His second suggestion is that the 386 bios has also been through several revisions, with the current release number 3.2 something. The most recent one we now have is 2.9B, but he is sending us a 3.2 BIOS to see if it helps with another problem we have had. If the machine is under warranty, new bios chips are normally requested through your dealer as a warranty repair. We use several of the 4MB boards here, but only in dedicated servers. They work well in that use (1MB base, rest extended.) -- Jim Strasma, Network Specialist @ WIU