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- From: spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Re: QEMM 6.02 + Win3.1 Problems and corrupted .grp files....
- Keywords: QEMM
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.185330.667@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 18:53:30 GMT
- Article-I.D.: midway.1992Aug20.185330.667
- References: <6394@kielouta.fi>
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- In article <6394@kielouta.fi> f1sami@uta.fi (Samu Mielonen) writes:
- >
- >Since installing Qemm 6.02 to my system with Windows 3.1 I have been
- >constantly confronted with the following message : "The xxx caused a general
- >protection fault... Please close application."
- >
- >I have installed Qemm according to Windows readme files, according to the
- >software manuals and the QemmWin problem solver database. Nothing has
- >helped.
- >
- >My Qemm parametres are: RAM ROM X=B000-B7FF
- >
- >and I am running win3.1 in 386 mode with no funny device drivers (except
- >smartdrive :-) no tsr programs. I have activated the shadow ram option
- >from my AMI BIOS setting and I have 256K cache (external, hardware) active.
- >
- If you have activated shadow ram with your BIOS, the ROM parameter in your
- QEMM invocation is unnecessary, I believe. (Further, if memory serves me,
- you need to specify a range of addresses with the ROM parameter.) Beyond
- that, you may need to exclude additional UMBs. Don't forget to exclude
- these (using the EMMExclude= setting) in your Windows SYSTEM.INI as well.
- Brian Livingston's "Windows 3.1 Secrets" advises adding two lines to your
- SYSTEM.INI 386Enh section (again, this is from memory, so pardon me if I get
- it wrong):
-
- SystemROMBreakPoint=false
- VCPIWarning=false
- >
- >The other oddity I have been unable to solve is the mystery of corrupted
- >.grp files. Sometimes when starting windows, it reports that: "The xxx.grp
- >has bee damaged. Please recreate it." or something similar.
- >
- >Once again I have tried disabling write cache (smartdrive active as cache),
- >turning off 32-bit disk operations, checking my HD for defects etc to no
- >avail. I must stress that these problems are not due to power failures or
- >switching off computer at ill times. The problem occurs quite randomly, but
- >often enough to be annoying. No viruses are present in the system. This
- >problem was also manifesting itself before the installation of Qemm.
- >
- I had the same problem with corrupted .GRP files until I loaded the DOS
- SHARE program in my AUTOEXEC.BAT. Try adding the line:
-
- SHARE /F:2048 /L:20
-
- (Also, I have since switched to an alternate Windows shell that doesn't use
- either the Program Manager or GRP files, but that's another story.)
-
- Recently I mucked around with my system and managed to generate all sorts of
- weird problems, many of them disk-related. Eventually, through many hours
- of patient analysis, and with lots of good reference manuals near at hand
- (the Windows Resource Kit, the QEMM manual, the DOS & Windows manuals,
- John Goodman's excellent book "Memory Management for All of Us," and the
- aforementioned "Windows 3.1 Secrets"), I was able to fix everything.
- But it can be frustrating. Good luck!
-
- Bob Osterlund
- berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
- SSPPCC--University of Chicago
-