Memory config questions
9 messages in this thread
Hi. I have what has been turning out for me to be a configuration
nightmare. I'm really hoping I can get some hard advice on what to do from
the people here on the forum. Here's the situation, nothing too complex,
yet complicated nonetheless: I just got a new system, 66 Mhz IBM PS/VP
486DX2 with 32 megs of RAM. I also have a Targa 64+ and Windows. I have
Qualitas' 386-to-the-MAX as my memory manager. How should I have
everything configured for everything to work to it's full abililty? I'm
using the Targa in a 2 monitor setup. Basically, I need config.sys,
autoexec.bat and Targa information. I'm not sure how to set up the memory
manager either. What interrupts should be set? What about excluding areas
of RAM? I know I can't run 3DS from Windows, but do I have to reboot with
a different autoexec and config.sys to change between running windows and
3ds? I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me out. Just ask if
you need some more information, or if I forgot to mention something.
Thanks..
Aaron
Aaron
I had trouble with 386max and 32megs a while back. Getting out of
any Adesk product would take 2-3 minutes until returning C:>. Switching to
Qemm took care of the problem. Just for your information.
TedB
Hmm… interesting to note that. I had problems with QEMM a while back,
it rebooted my system when it came to the QEMM line in CONFIG.SYS. My
system just went in an endless rebooting loop and I had to stick a DOS disk
in to stop it. That's why I decided to try 386max.
Aaron
Aaron-
Qemm is a very good product and in some way even worked along side
the Yost people in writing of 3ds, see installation and performance
manual.
Qemm is very tricky and technical to get working "correctly", if you can
get it to work on your system I highly recommend it. From my experience it
takes a lot of diligence to tweek it out correctly.
Qemm has a forum on CIS you can get help from. I think its GO QEMM.
Any way thats my two bits, two cents or two what ever economic structure
you like to use.
Carl-
Its me again, I had zero trouble getting qemm to work on any of my
systems. In fact, until recently, I had absolutly no idea what I was
doing…Just typed "install"… no brain-no pain.
Regards, Peter Kroko
Peter-
Don't get me wrong. I think Qemm is great, I said it takes some time,
at least in my case, to get it "tweeked out". When I first install it
all by it self, I just typed install, I had a good running system with only
476k of mem left. After a lot of reading and help I got it up to
600k, playing with exclude statements, stealth parameters, re-arranging the
order of TSR programs and so on.
Seems odd, Carl. When I installed QEMM, I got 633K, 1st time on about 10
machines. How many TSRs have you got? Our machines have mouse drivers,
network drivers, doskey and PC Support drivers. Totals about 150-200K and
all are loaded high. I usually run QEMMs OPTIMIZE/q (/q=quick, blows past
all the prompts) and get the above result….FWIW
David Taffet
David-
Hey thanks for the tip on \q I never saw that in the manual. Anyway, I had
to exclude some high memory for the Herc. board to work, C000-CFFF,
otherwise I kept getting hangups, plus I had to use a DiskBuffer of 7 for
the SCSI drive to work and my Aspikern.sys will not run in high mem, don't
ask why I only know that is the way the computer whats it or else, its
hang-em high time.
Yeah, the /q isn't in the manual. One of Quarterdeck's tech personages told
me about it.
DT