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- Subject: Re: HELP: packet driver bombs windows 3.1 - solved
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.170631.2582@nic.csu.net>
- From: Stephen Gibson
- Date: 3 Sep 92 17:06:30 PDT
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- In article <3SEP199213024557@zeus.tamu.edu> sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu (MCCLUNEY, STEVEN ALEXANDER) writes:
- >Thanks to everybody for the advice - the main fix involved setting
- >the RAM base address to E000 (for some reason D000 froze the system).
- >The memory chart in my ethernet card manual implies that the range
- >c800- is free, but when I used this value DOS slowed down to a snail's
- >pace, and Windows still locked up. BTW, what is the syntax for
- >excluding a memory range with EMM386? My DOS and Windows manuals
- >don't mention this option. Thanks a lot!
- >
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >| Steven A. McCluney |"Strange women lying in ponds |
- >| sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu | distributing swords is no basis |
- >| I'm a grad student, so my opinions | for a system of government!" |
- >| are worthless anyway | Dennis, to King Arthur |
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The syntax for excluding a memory range with EMM386 is:
- DEVICE=[path]EMM386.EXE X=????-????
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- where ????-???? is the range you with to exclude (e.g.
- x=B000-B7FF). You should probably exclude the same range for
- Windows in the SYSTEM.INI file
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- [386Enh]
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