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"Karl Frank" <ka...@karl.frank.name> wrote in message
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> This isn't by chance a laptop, is it? From this post (and your next one)
> it is evident what your problem is: EMM needs 64k HMA in order to work.
> Your PC does not have such a window free (or at least it doesn't have a
> 64k block free). This usually happens if you have a PCMCIA drive and/or
> you have a huge BIOS (usually with 'useless' energy saving routines).

Hi Karl!  No, it's not a laptop.  It's a desktop PC with a Gigabyte
motherboard that has standard IDE interfaces, plus a Promise RAID
controller, plus memory stick, smartcard, who knows what else, and the PCI
SCSI card also appears to have claimed a lot of the upper memory.

> Maybe you can disable some stuff in the BIOS?

No, there's no settings to determine which memory the I/O devices use, and I
do need the SCSI and RAID controllers.  So I don't think there's anything I
can actually disable without unplugging my scanner and my RAID stack.

Thanks for the suggestions.  Someone else suggested getting an old machine
and using that - I have an older PC at a friend's place, and at this point I
think it would be easier to get it to work than to battle with trying to run
a DOS game on the PIV I'm using now!

The point which made me decide this direction was that the onboard soundcard
probably wouldn't work in DOS.

Rob