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In article <rgs.659275134@phadfa> rgs@phadfa.ph.adfa.oz.au (Robert Smith) writes:
>I have a Gateway 2000 386SX (4Meg ram) with a Video7 VGA board, and
>have been having a problem with HIMEM.SYS and SMARTDRV.SYS in the
>Windows 3 package...
>
>Basically, if I load HIMEM.SYS followed by SMARTDRV.SYS (from
>consecutive lines in my CONFIG.SYS file), then whenever I do anything
>else after the machine has booted, it crashes, usually displaying a
>"Parity Error ???" message, followed by "System Halted"...
>
>Quite by accident, yesterday I hit the turbo switch on my machine which
>reduced it's speed by half (from 16MHz).  Suddenly everything works fine
>and I can load HIMEM.SYS and SMARTDRV.SYS and do anything I want without
>any problems at all.  Does anyone have any clues as to what could be
>causing this?...

You might have your motherboard set up as "0 wait state" with ram that is
not quite fast enough.  I don't know how Gateway configures their systems
but you should be able to enter their setup program through a key sequence
during bootup.  Add 1 wait state and check for any improvement.

Good Luck!

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