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Article #13112Problems with DOS 5.0 SmartDrive/HIMEM (?)
From: Aaron Wallace
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 18:48
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 18:48
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Hi! Just put DOS 5 on my machine and started getting a lot of UAEs in Windows. I normally get *very* few (1 every week or two at most). Someone posted here that they suspected that the problem was in SmartDrive. I replaced it and the UAEs still came. So I replaced HIMEM with the Win 3 one as well. This seems to do much better, but I'll have to play with it more, first. Has anyone else had problems with the new SmartDrive/HIMEM? My system is: 386sx-20, 6 Meg, 66 Mb RLL HD, Trident VGA, AMI Bios, C+T chipset. Why would MS make these drivers less stable? Bonus not-related-to-anything-here question: why might a True Blue AT keyboard (the one with the Ctrl key in the right place, parked next to the A key) not work on my system, while a MaxiSwitch of ancient vintage does? The AT kbd works fine on other AMI-BIOS systems I tested... Aaron Wallace
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU From: aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Aaron Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Problems with DOS 5.0 SmartDrive/HIMEM (?) Message-ID: <1991Jun25.184828.26915@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: 25 Jun 91 18:48:28 GMT Article-I.D.: leland.1991Jun25.184828.26915 Sender: Aaron Wallace Reply-To: aaron@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Aaron Wallace) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 20