Breaking the 64MB Limit
15-Jun-95 08:43:17
Sb: #175494-Breaking the 64MB Limit
Fm: Jonas Ruikis [ADESK] 73172,1351
To: BITS 100013,2760
Hi Andy,
<< where's my memory.. >>
Here's a repost from Jamie Clay..(slightly dated but still valid)
"If you ever have someone call in who has a system with more memory
than AutoCAD or 3DS show available, here is one possible solution.
(First, does all the memory count up during initial boot?, if so read
on)
o Get QEMM 7.04 (actually you can't yet purchase this, the patch is on
CIS in the QEMM forum)
o Then you use the(undocumented) SCANMEM command to display the amount
of memory the machine has. SCANMEM returns a memory range called
USEMEM.
o That range then needs to be plugged into the QEMM386.SYS's USERAM
option in the CONFIG.SYS.
Example: DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM USERAM=XXXXX-XXXXX
From there it works like a champ. Note – you needed to add the RAM option to
get Windows to work with it."
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Following the above, Tyler writes..
I had trouble with Jamie Clay's instructions until I got on the QEMM forum and
learned that I had to boot my computer "clean" before I ran SCANMEM. This
means when "Starting MS-DOS…" is displayed, press F5 to bypass your
config.sys and autoexec.bat. _Then_ run SCANMEM and add the appropriate
"USERAM=XXXXXX-XXXXXXXXX" to your QEMM line in config.sys.
-Tyler Colwell
Sierra Analysis Group
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jonas[adesk]