Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!ico!ism780c!randvax!ucla-an!stb!gendep!craig Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Problem with expanded memory Keywords: DOS4.1,WP5.1,EXPANDED Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 90 04:18:32 GMT References: <35198@mips.mips.COM> Organization: General Depravity 1 213 447 1543 Lines: 19 bac@mips.COM (Bruce Clarke - Mgr. Systems Engineering) writes: > Sometime ago I got some software from one of the archives that allows > extended memory to be used as expanded memory (EMS40.SYS). Recently I > upgraded my motherboard from a 286 clone to a Mylex 386SX-16. Today I > bought the Wordperfect 5.1 upgrade and had trouble installing it (one > of the last steps is entering your license number and WP could not read > the keyboard input). As a last resort (and because it was suggested as > a fix to another bug that I was researching) I finally tried > running my system without EMS40.SYS configured and it fixed the problem > with Wordperfect. > > If it matters, I am using MSDOS 4.01, have 1 MB on the motherboard and > 3 MB on an extended memory card, and have an EGA controller/display. If you have DOS 4.01, on your DOS disks there should be an EMS 4.0 driver called EMS386.SYS (I think?) which I use and have had no trouble with. I recently installed WP 5.1 on my 386SX with this EMS driver installed and have had no troubles.