EMS Memory

[Stephan Rose]

Having a trouble getting EMS Memory to work for dos programs on one of
my machines.

All other machines, its no problem, which strikes me as odd.

On the machine in question, if I create a shortcut to command.com, and
set EMS memory to say 16megs, no ems shows when calling mem from the
prompt. However, the 16 megs allocated for EMS show in bytes total
continguous memory.

Another odd thing is that there is roughly 940kb of XMS memory
allocated and available even though XMS is set to None.

On all other machines, setting EMS to 16 megs, will give me 16 megs of
EMS shown by the mem command no problem.

All machines are running XP Professional.

Also, when calling mem /c, the machines where EMS works, list EMM in
the list of TSRs. On the machine where EMS is not working, EMM is not
listed.

At first I had thought it might have been due to some installed
update, I had just set up this new machine and downloaded all
available updates. So I went to reinstall XP from scratch, not a
single update installed, and still have the problem. Even tried two
different XP install CDs to see if there was a differnce in version
but no luck there either.

I also tried adding the EMS= Line to the config.NT file, all with no
success. Tried all different kinds of parameters.

It's a Pentium4 machine, 1.5GHz, 1024megs SDRAM.

I desperatly need to get EMS working on here as this is the one single
machine we actually need it on!

Thanks in advance,

Stephan

 

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Having a trouble getting EMS Memory to work for dos programs on one of
my machines.

All other machines, its no problem, which strikes me as odd.

Searching on the Internet, it appears some people have luck getting
the EMM command to work in config.nt, and some do not. Even people who
get it to work on one machine, may not get it to work on another. As
of today, I too was trying to get some EMS to work on my Gateway. No
luck what so ever.

Now I am beginning to think it is related to hardware/BIOS. When I
first got this machine in May, I was trying to set it up to dual boot
Windows 98SE and XP Home. I knew I had a EMS issue to deal with and
thought XP had no EMS feature. I had no luck with the 98. It always
seemed to fail when finding hardware I think on the USB ports. I even
tried a MS-DOS boot disk with EMM386 in the CONFIG.SYS file. It too
failed.

So I guess I am glad my old Win98 machine is still hooked up

Good luck, and if you do find a solution, I do hope you write back.



You know what to do: shdb at slip dot net

 

[Stephan Rose]

<snip>

Yea found a solution =)

Dual Boot with MS-DOS 6.22 and WinXP =)

Stephan