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I have a 486DX machine running on DOS6.22. For some strange reason it is not willing to create usable UMB's during the startup procedure.
The first 3 lines of my config.sys read: DEVICE=C:\HIMEM.exe DEVICE=C:\EMM386.exe NOEMS NOVCPI DOS=HIGH,UMB
I tried different parameters for the emm386 program, but nothing works. Why does it work on all other machines except for this one ? Can it be a hardware problem ?
There are no error messages as far as I can see. Everything works fine, except I have 0 kB upper memory available.
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Response Number 5
Name: salwoz Date: June 10, 1999 at 23:01:00 Pacific
Reply:
You may be infected with a virus. I had the same problem with a work PC running W311. I installed a anti-virus program, and everything went back to normal.
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Response Number 6
Name: Casper Date: January 17, 2001 at 10:09:29 Pacific
Summary: Sorry if this question belongs in another catagory, but I'm not sure where it belongs. When I type the command MEM, it says that I have no upper memory. Shows 0 all the way across. I'm wondering why i...
Summary: Something's wrong here Nathan... upper mem rarely amounts to more than 150 - 200K. No program in the world is going to request 7 Megs of upper memory!! Generally speaking, programs don't really use up...
Summary: Seems to be progressing not at all, and I'm puzzled why you're introducing the DOS startups for another system when you haven't resolved the original issue " i'm not sure what line to type in to load ...
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