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    07-Feb-94 00:19:01
Sb: #81749-#tplus
Fm: ARA GREGORIAN 71544,2345
To: Mathew D. Bergman 71564,1134
mathew: thanks for the reply. yes i agree there is a big problem with qemm on this pentum(micron pci) the problem goes away when qemm is unloaded, but this creats an other problem; with all the device drivers that load at the boot i am left with only 390k of mem! i am not able to run most of my other programs with this much memory and there is no way i can reduce the number of tsr drivers, i need them all. i tried using dos 6.2 memmaker and that put me back to square 1 again(same problem as qemm with less availible memory). the funny thing is that on my 486 66dx2 i was using an identical setup with the same number of drivers and devices and same targa+32 and same targa settings and the same qemm(ver. 7).i had absolutly no problems of any kind??!! the only basic differance between the two systems was that the 486 was local vesa and the pentium is a pci. i have tried everything possible that i am aware of with targa, qemm, memmaker. nothing works. you want a real funny story check this out. when i got the system going for 3ds3 by dumping qemm, i would get differant render times for the 50point man 3ds file at targa res. every time i rendered the file. the render times would very from 7secs(yes!) to 77sec(wow!). this happened if i ran windows first and then quit windows and started 3ds3. if i went directly to 3ds3 with qemm dumped, everything worked fine, except my base mem of 390k.(daaa) >:( the only two conclusions i have so far are the following: -the pci system and the memory management programs of today are incompatible since pci has a different memory structure. -the micron pentum system has not been debuged and is problematic. i have decided to ship it back. i am not sure what i will buy. if you know of any pentum sys that works fine with targa and any memory manager which is also hooked up to several scsi devices(cd rom, sqy, ext hd, etc) , let me know i need to buy a new system that works. take care ara