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- From: dschmitz@iastate.edu (Daniel C Schmitz)
- Subject: Re: Help on EMM386.exe
- Message-ID: <dschmitz.721926106@pv0322.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Nov14.011354.16254@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:01:46 GMT
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- In <1992Nov14.011354.16254@njitgw.njit.edu> scr2275@hertz.njit.edu (Samuel C. Ramac) writes:
-
- >Hi!
- > I'm having some difficulty installing EMM386.exe to my new 486sx computer.
- >Whenever I install it on my config.sys without a parameter e.g.
- >device=c:\emm386.sys, my computer tell me that: UNABLE TO SET PAGE FRAME BASE
- >ADDRESS. However if I include the NOEMS parameter everything is fine, except
- >that I don't have any expanded memory capability.
-
- What is happening is that the page frame that emm386 is trying to
- aquire is being used by another device driver or expansion card. I haven't
- been able to find out what the default page frame is but you can set the page
- frame to a different memory location by including the parameter:
- frame=<address>
- Valid values for <address> are in the ranges 8000h through 9000h and
- C000h through E000h, in increments of 400h
-
- I would stick to the higher range or you will conflict with standard
- memory below 640k. I believe C800h is used by many harddrives so you may
- wish to avoid that address also.
-
- example
- device=emm386.exe frame=d000
-
-
- Someone else asked if emm386 will work on a 486. Yes, there should be no
- problem at all. I use it on my own 486 and have had no problems.
-
- Dan Schmitz
- dschmitz@iastate.edu
-