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Article #327Re: QEMM & PCTools 7.1
From: Danny Low
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:31
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:31
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>(Randall Weston)
>I'm running an AMD 386-40 with 64k sram cache. If I use QEMM (or EMM386)
>to
> enable UMB's, CP Backup fails. It does one of three thimgs. It crashes
>and
> does a cold boot, compare shows different file contents, or compare says
>it
> can't find the backup directory. If I use only HIMEM.SYS it works just
>fine,
> but I don't have as much memory free as I can with QEMM. Any ideas?
I have this exact configuration and use CP Backup with no problems.
I suspect you are loading something high (smartdrv?) into an
area that should not have been reclaimed as an UMB. Use QEMM and explicitly
exclude areas. B000-B800 is an area that often causes problems with
Windows.
Danny Low
"Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
HP CPCD dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com
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