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>>   I have just installed QEMM memory manager onto my 386/40 that I hve
>>previously been running Windows 3.1 on.  Now all of a sudden, whenever I
>>run Windows, the beginning screeen comes up, then the computer reboots.
>>I can not figure out what is wrong here.  I would appreciate any help I can
>>get.

I just installed QEMM on my 386/33 last night. I ran into the same thing.
But first I received a conflict error message regarding address B000.
I think this is the monochrome video page. So I read the readme in
windows and it pointed me to a driver that needed to be installed.

Windows apparently plays games using the unused bios ram locations in
the HMA. So does QEMM. Well, they both want to use this space. So
I installed the driver from the windows disk (I think it was 
umonosh2.386 - or something like that - see the read me). This driver
is supposed to allow some sharing of this ram location.

Well, after that I rebooted and got the symptom you describe. I did not
get the conflict message any more, but the system immediately rebooted.
So I read some more, and apparently the QEMM memory manager needs to
exclude this page. In config.sys, add X=B000-B77F to the qemm driver.
Then reboot.

This took away valuable memory, but everything did work. I found that
some things did not fit in High Memory due to the loss of this 32K
page. So I ran optimize again. It ran like a champ. Everything is back
in new HMA locations, and I have 620K ram available.

I have really been plagued by the memory management over the past
few weeks. What really helped me is a book I recently found. Its 
title: "Memory Management For All of Us" by John M. Goodman, Ph.D.
Its published by SAMS - ISBN 0-672-27366-7. 1137 pages (a biggie!).

This book is excellent. It spans from the beginner to the advanced
user. Its well organized. It discusses all the background theory,
as well as the practical uses. It has very detailed technical
discussions on the most all the memory managers. It covers dos 5 and
mentions Windows 3.1, although most of the windows discussions are
about 3.0. 3.1 was too new at the time the book was written.

I hope this helps. I strongly recommend the book to anyone who felt
as I did regarding all this memory management (magic? I use to think
so, now its not a mystery any more).