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From: dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: QEMM freezes computer
Message-ID: <9761@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 4 Mar 90 07:14:40 GMT
References: <2764@aecom.yu.edu>
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In article <2764@aecom.yu.edu>, werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:
> 
> 	When QEMM.SYS is installed as the first line in my CONFIG.SYS, it
> displays its message, version 4.23, and then hangs up the computer,
> requiring a cold boot.
> 	If I disable shadow RAM, and use the version of the command
> DEVICE=QEMM.SYS ROM, it displays the message, then reboots the computer
> on its own, and so on, in infinite loop.	
> 
> 	I have a 80386, with  4M, 640 normal, 384 reserved for shadowing,
> and 3072K as QEMM fodder.

    You should give more information.  What kind of video card?  Do you
have a network adapter?  What kind of hard drive controller?  What kind
of system board (chip set, specifically)?
    As a first try, take out the 'ROM' specification in the QEMM line,
and leave shadow RAM off.  If I had to guess, I would say that there is
a ROM somewhere in your system that doesn't like what QEMM is doing to it.
If it boots, you can run QEMM.EXE to find out what QEMM thinks it can do. 
If desperate, put 'X=A000-FFFF' in the QEMM line.  This will keep QEMM
from doing much of anything that could be dangerous.  Then you can start
including features one at a time to see what is causing the failure.

 -David Hinds
  dhinds@popserver.stanford.edu