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Re: Memory problem in DOS

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From: igmar palsenberg
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 00:00
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	            DE  DIGITALE  STAD

Op Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Joseph M. Spreng schreef:

> Mark Owen Scott,
> 
>   Here's my CONFIG.SYS, less the CD ROM driver that I use:
> 
> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /V
> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS D=64 X=C000-C7FF /V
> DOS=HIGH,UMB,AUTO
> FILESHIGH=50
> BUFFERSHIGH=22
> STACKSHIGH=9,256
> FCBSHIGH=1,0
> LASTDRIVEHIGH=Z
> SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:768 /P
> DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ANSI.SYS
> BREAK=ON
> 
>   You need to load HIMEM.SYS & EMM386.EXE to setup your DOS memory.
> 
>   Later.
> 
> Mark Owen Scott wrote:
> 
> > Milan wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >         Sorry I can't help you with your problem, but I have a similar
> >
> > situation.  My girlfriend's Cyrix 6x86 P-200 claims to have no upper
> > memory.  None, nada, zip.  This means that, while running in true DOS
> > mode, it can't run a vast majority of programs.  I suspect that Win95
> > has some legacy program that takes that space even when rebooting into
> >
> > MS-Dos mode.  I think I can get by with a boot disk, but those are a
> > royal pain in the [], and I'd rather find another way.
> >
> >         From what I've seen, no PC could run Win95 or any modern
> > program
> > without that upper memory, so I assume it does exist.  What gives?
> >
> > Email replies preferred.
> >
> > Pastor of Muppets
> >
> > Xenaphobia: fear of mythical heroines with large breasts.
> 
> 
> 
> --
>   Good Luck.
> 
> Joseph M. Spreng
> jmsp...@ct1.nai.net
> 
> "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks
> like a duck you've got a duck." -- Dan Rather
> 
> 
> 
> 

Why don't you boot to an older DOS version. Win'95 puts VMM32 resident 
when booting in to DOS mode, so that won't solve you problem. The easy 
way is to enable the "Boot you previous DOS version" option, so you can 
boot an old version (eq DOS 6.22) Solves your problem. 


      Igmar
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Subject: Re: Memory problem in DOS
Date: 1997/07/29
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