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linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:


>The funniest thing happened to me. Yesterday, when I booted my
>dos partition, I noticed I had no UMB's. I was rather surprised,
>since I hadn't changed anything since I last used dos.
>And behold, the himem.sys and emm386.exe settings were still
>ok, yet, from the dos prompt (4dos or command.com) I could not
>see any UMB's, emm386 repports 0 bytes available/free UMB
>but a correct UMB start segment (C800), SI repports no UMB server
>present, BUT the drivers in DEVICEHIGH's were loaded high and
>functioning!!!

Are you sure they were up high?

>How's that for a mysterie. Has my processor maybe gone off DOS
>after having been running OS/2 for a while now :-) ?
>I reinstalled DOS, reformatted c: disected config.sys, and what
>else. No indication of failure. OS/2 runs fine, checkit confirms
>the system board to be ok, yet, NO UMB's.
>My suspicion is rather arroused though, by the fact that SI,
>repports different memory sizes in the various info screens.
>It finds 638 to be useable by DOS, yet 640 to be available.

Sounds like some of your BIOS settings may have been changed, such as the ones
for shadow RAM.  How much RAM is in your system?

-JTT

Good .sig, by the way.  Crazy, isn't it?  We invent a God, and then pretend
he/she/it invented us.
I guess there are those who never outgrow the need for a "Father" figure,
who will surely make everything all right somehow, someday, somewhere...