PC DOS 2000 Memory Problems

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Name: rkeldos
Date: May 27, 2007 at 20:05:05 Pacific
Subject: PC DOS 2000 Memory Problems
OS: IMB PC DOS 2000
CPU/Ram: P4 3.2GHz/2Gb RAM

Comment:

Having a problem with IBM PC DOS 2000.
When I insert the following lines into config.sys:
device=c:\dos\himem.sys
device=c:\dos\emm386.exe noems
dos=high,umb
It deletes itself or corrupts itself badly after a few file operations (copy/move, etc).
The machine is ~2.5 years old. 3.2 GHz P4 with 2 gigs RAM.
DOS is being installed on a 2 gig partition at the start of the drive.
Anyone got any ideas?

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Response Number 1

Name: Santa
Date: May 27, 2007 at 22:35:12 Pacific
Subject: PC DOS 2000 Memory Problems

Reply: (edit)

PC-DOS has a built in memory configuration tool, run RAMSETUP.EXE from the command line.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstrac...

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Response Number 2

Name: rkeldos
Date: May 28, 2007 at 03:17:36 Pacific
Subject: PC DOS 2000 Memory Problems

Reply: (edit)

Thanks for the reply.
I ran ramsetup, and it still ate itself. This time it was a bit quicker.
Is it a problem that I have 2Gb of RAM installed in this machine?
MS-DOS doesn't seem to have any problems. It's just PC-DOS giving me these headaches.

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Response Number 3

Name: Santa
Date: May 28, 2007 at 03:32:36 Pacific
Subject: PC DOS 2000 Memory Problems

Reply: (edit)

RAMSETUP configures the settings for you, therefore no need to manually tweak!

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Response Number 4

Name: rkeldos
Date: May 28, 2007 at 04:02:06 Pacific
Subject: PC DOS 2000 Memory Problems

Reply: (edit)

I know. I didn't manually tweak anything.
It still corrupted itself.

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Response Number 5

Name: Santa
Date: May 28, 2007 at 04:58:38 Pacific
Subject: PC DOS 2000 Memory Problems

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http://www.pldos.pl/pcdos/psm951a.htm

The only trick is to look in BIOS and see if it has an option for less than 64MB Mem OS/2...

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Response Number 6

Name: Lupin3rd
Date: May 28, 2007 at 06:53:03 Pacific
Subject: PC DOS 2000 Memory Problems

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MS-DOS 6.X only recognises 64 meg of ram that's why that works fine.
Quatermass O.B.E

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Response Number 7

Name: rkeldos
Date: May 28, 2007 at 16:29:39 Pacific
Subject: PC DOS 2000 Memory Problems

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Thank you.
I'll have a look through my BIOS settings. Hopefully there's something there.
Failing that, are there any patches available for PC DOS to allow it to work on machines with more than 64mb RAM?

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