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In article <b1te8u$dca$1...@gnamma.connect.com.au>, blah <bl...@blah.com> wrote:
>"Karl Frank" <ka...@karl.frank.name> wrote in message
>news:964956305.373648@news.ainet.at...
>> 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.

You might be able to turn of video bios shadowing, etc.. not sure if that
frees up "upper memory" though.


>> 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.

Good call. Slim chance of that.

Mattias