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Conventional Memory

HI!
I load Himem.sys on startup and use the DEVICEHIGH and LOADHIGH commands trying to load drivers away of conventional memory.
It doesn't work. All of them appear on the conventional memory.
What's the problem.
Thank you very much

RoadWarrior

Himem.sys only gives dos progs that ask for it access to memory above one mb, you should be running emm386.exe to provide access to the HMA, which is the memory between 640k and 1mb. some of that memory may be unavailable according to what rom shadows (caches) you have enabled in bios, some don't give you an option to set this, and just take all 384K for their own purposes.
*smiling* so putting EMM386.EXE NOEMS in the top of your config.sys should fix it, above any xxxxHIGH statements *smile*

hope that helps,

Road Warrior

chewymon

Do you have a DOS=UMB line in your config.sys file?

czpczp

Your config.sys should look like this (minus any additional driver you may be loading -- i.e. for your CDROM drive -- if you do have some, add them after the "stacks" entry and use "devicehigh"). (Note: don't use "devicehigh" for the first two lines). (Note#2: make sure the himem.sys comes *before* the "emm386" entry).

device=c:\windows\himem.sys /testmem:off
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe noems
dos=high, umb
stacks=0,0

These lines will pump up your conventional memory.

Badder

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Thanks RoadWarrior, but I already have the "EMM386.EXE NOEMS2 in the top of the config.sys.
But with the hints czpczp gave me I've managed to increase the conventional memory (after a lot of tests).
Thank u all. CZPCZP, please answer so u gan get your points.

czpczp

Glad I could help Badder :o)

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