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acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook) writes:
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> clean.  In the config.sys file, I put the commands :
> 	device = himem.sys
> 	dos=high
> 	files=20
> 	buffers=40
> and that's it.  When  the computer boots up, Himem returns a message saying
> "High Memory Area Available", but when it attempts to load dos high, I get
> an error message saying "HMA not available, loading dos low".  What gives
> here ?  Any ideas?  Or should I just bite the bullet and call MS tech 
> support and wait on the phone for 30minutes to an hour for a technician? :-)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andy Cook
> acook@athena.mit.edu

Andy, this is coming from someone that's not TOTALLY in the know, but I
have a 286 too and your config.sys is close to mine.
NOw for the $1000 question...
What type of MEMORY your 4 megs are, 'cause himem works ONLY with
eXTended memory. And are you sure that the driver IS in your root (or
simply but the path, i.e. device=c:\dos\himem.sys).

That's the only thing that comes to my mind after 2 weeks of playing
with DOS 5 and reading the post on CI$ in their section...

Hope this help, and if you wan to comment to me, please do so in EMAIL
since I'll be loosing my phone 'cause of moving for a week and my feeder
will not let news accumulate for a week... MAil is OK, but then you can
always send it to my CI$ box and I'll get it as soon as I'm back
online...

TCTTYL!


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