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Re: QEMM freezes computer

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From: BRADLEY GRIGOR
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 00:37
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werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:

wu>        While I go through the channels with Quarterdeck,  let me ask
wu>if there is anyone else who's had a similar situation.

wu>        When QEMM.SYS is installed as the first line in my
wu>CONFIG.SYS, it displays its message, version 4.23, and then hangs up
wu>the computer, requiring a cold boot.
wu>        If I disable shadow RAM, and use the version of the command
wu>DEVICE=QEMM.SYS ROM, it displays the message, then reboots the
wu>computer on its own, and so on, in infinite loop.        

wu>        I have a 80386, with  4M, 640 normal, 384 reserved for
wu>shadowing, and 3072K as QEMM fodder.

There isn't much to go on here.  However, when I first installed
QEMM V5.00 on my 20Mhz AT/386, which uses the Chips &
Technologies CS8236-20 chipset, QEMM would reboot indefinitely in
the manner you describe.

I discovered that by default QEMM was assuming that my C&T
chipset supported "shadow RAM".  Whether or not this is true,
disabling "shadow RAM" support, by putting the NOSH switch on the
QEMM.SYS command line, eliminated the reboot loop.  My current
QEMM.SYS command line looks like this:

    DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM.SYS NOEMS NOSH NR MAPS=0 X=0000-BFFF
           RAM ROM=C000-C7FF ROM=CC00-CDFF EXTMEM=1072

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From: bradley.grigor@canremote.uucp (BRADLEY GRIGOR)
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Subject: Re: QEMM freezes computer
Message-ID: <90030820225892@masnet.uucp>
Date: 6 Mar 90 00:37:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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