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- Subject: re: 386Max, Windows 3.1 and lots of memory.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.173421.3264@nic.csu.net>
- From: Stephen Gibson
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:34:19 PST
- References: <1992Nov18.224634.4072@utkux1.utk.edu>
- Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
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- In article <1992Nov18.224634.4072@utkux1.utk.edu> harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp) writes:
- >
- >This may be a really stupid question, but I won't know until I ask it. I
- >recently beefed my memory from 8MB to 20MB. I cranked up the machine and
- >everything went cool. All 20MB are there. I ran windows and it told me
- >that Windows 3.0 (I am using 3.1 but that is what it said) will not use any
- >memory above 16MB... reduce to 16MB and try again. Does this mean that I
- >actually have to pull four megs out of my machine to get windows to run
- >again? It can't just ignore the memory? I can't make my hard disk cache
- >bigger so there is only 16MB left? (I tried this with the same result).
- >What should I do?
- >
- >Sean Harp
- >University of Tennessee
- >
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- More details may be needed. Is your system ISA, EISA or Local bus. The
- README.WRI file supplied with Windows gives some tips on EISA systems with
- more that 16MB of memory. 386Max may also have special switches that define
- how your extended memory "looks" to Windows. For instance, on my 486DX/50
- EISA system w/16MB RAM I had to add the EMBMEM parameter on my QEMM386.SYS
- to force QEMM to "see" all 16 megs (it will only "see" 12 megs by default).
- Check your Qualitas docs.
-
-
- Stephen Gibson
- System Support Specialist
- Sonoma State Universtiy
- eMAIL: gibsonst@sonoma.edu
- Stephen.Gibson@sonoma.edu
-