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I have been running MSDOS 3.3, more recently 4.01 (for about a month) and not
MSDOS 5.0 on a 12 MHz 286 w/ 8 MHz 80287, AWARD BIOS (Yuck!), and 2 Mb total
RAM (in 1 Mb DRAM Chips).  I have used Above DISK+ V4.0 to turn some of that
extended memory into LIM EMS 4.0, which I had successfully used w/ Quattro Pro
1.0, and somewhat less successfully had attempted to use with WordPerfect 5.1
(I frequently get errors such as "Cannot find WP.FIL(0)" when I run WP 5.1
with the EMS turned on.)

Anyhow, since my main need for EMS was for some HUGE spreadsheets I often load
into QUATTRO PRO, I was moderately satisfied.  Now I have upgraded to MSDOS
5.0, and Above DISK+ causes my system to crash HARD (necessitating a cold
reboot) any time an attemp is made to access EMS, including if I try to run
EMS supporting software, if I install either SmartDRV or RAMDRIVE in EMS, or
if I run EMS testing software to test the EMS pages.  Once it even caused my
CMOS to zero, and I had to run SETUP to tell it the proper time, floppies I
had, hard disk info, etc.

Here are the things I have attempted to do:

	- Not use 4DOS 3.02 as my shell, and use COMMAND.COM instead.
	- Not include the DOS=HIGH line in CONFIG.SYS to free up the HMA.
	- Decrease the size of the SmartDRV and RAMDRIVE to free more memory 
	  overall.
	- Decrease the amount of memory converted to EMS (down to below 512
	  Kb).

Nothing has worked!  I am going to call ABOVE software tomorrow for help, but
I won't have the box w/ ph. number, etc. until I can go get them  from my
office.  All in all, I have not been real pleased with the large number of
BUGS anyhow, since the 386 at work has none of these problems running QEMM386,
which unfortunately I cannot run.  Does anyone have any experience/advice?  I
have only had Above DISK+ since November or so.  Is there a higher version
than 4.0 around, or a better program?  I've heard of/seen QRAM, but it appears
only to load devices and TSRs high.  Does it also allow you to convert
extended memory into EMS?

Please help!  I can't do any work at home until I get this problem solved!

Thanks in advance,

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