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From: gerten@uklirb.UUCP (Rainer Gerten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Norton Utilities locking up PS2 55 SX
Summary: It's XMAEM and XMA2EMS !
Keywords: norton ps2 lockup
Message-ID: <8368@uklirb.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 90 13:05:00 GMT
References: <1182@ac.dal.ca>
Reply-To: gerten@uklirb.UUCP (Rainer Gerten)
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
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In article <1182@ac.dal.ca> rb@ac.dal.ca writes:
>Some users with new ibm ps2 machines have experianced total system lockups
>when using Norton Utilities 4.5. For example, the DS (directory sort) utility
>does this. The nearest machine showing this problem is a ps2 55 sx. Does 
>anyone know if a special version is available for these machines ? I had to
>get a special version for a zenith 386 which demonstrated different symptoms.

The norton utilities run fine on a PS/2 55SX, if the IBM supplied
driver XMAEM and XMA2EMS are not installed ! If you are using them, try
other converter for extended to expanded memory. (For example,
under Windows 386, Version 2.11 this works ok)

There are a lot troubles between the IBM supplied drivers for
extended/expanded memory and the microsoft drivers
Example:
HiMem.Sys and XMAEM and XMA2EMS don't work together.

Rainer Gerten
University of Kaiserslautern
West-Germany
mail: gerten@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de