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In article <817473846snz@rose.demon.co.uk>
           Ross@rose.demon.co.uk "Ross Cochrane" writes:

> Yes, I'm afraid it's me again after some help.  I've a 286 machine
> running under drdos 6 with 2 megs of extra memory.  Now my problem is
> this, I cannot seem to load dos into the upper memory area:  well not
> quite true, I can do it, and it says it's done, however, the machine
> runs for approximately 10 minutes before locking up totally.  Now
> perhaps I could understand this if I were running programs, however,
> even if I leave the machine doing absolutely nothing, having booted up,
> it still does the same thing.  If I load dos conventionally, however,
> all runs well except for the fact that ka9q seems to object to not
> having enough memory and often stops running.
> 
> Let's see, what else is important:  I'm running a vga card, so my
> question is, should I be able to load dos into the upper memory area
> okay, if so, why does it lock up.  The  config.sys is as follows:
> device=c:\boca\bratemse.sys
> DEVICE = c:\DRDOS\HIDOS.SYS /bdos=auto
> SHELL=c:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:1024
> BREAK=ON 
> BUFFERS=15
> FILES=40
> FCBS=4,4
> LASTDRIVE=Z
> rem HISTORY=ON, 256, OFF, OFF, OFF
> DEVICE=c:\ANSI.SYS
> 
> so nothing particularly unusual there.
> It occurs whether I rem out the first line or not.
> Any help please, or am I asking the poor thing to do something it's just
> not capable of?
> 
>  ??
> 
As a quick guess, I think you have a faulty memory chip.  Looks like when
you PC is warmed up this chip is failing.  The fact the the machine works
OK when memory > 640 is not enables suggests that it is a chip which is
only access when expanded memory is access. 

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Rajesh Varia     raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk