Trouble activating EMM on Dell's Lattitude running NT2000 (AREV Specific) [Revelation On-Line Wiki]

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At 09 JAN 2001 08:17:05PM Wayne Teas wrote:

AREV Specific

I have set EMM properties to 4096, etc. in the _default.pif but the the system will not load the expanded memory.

I have talked to Microsoft regarding the documented EMM command in the config.nt file (which also does not work), but they as yet are not able to tell me why this is an invalid command.

I also tried loading WIN98 and WINME with the same results (no EMM).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

At 10 JAN 2001 08:56AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:

This could be an issue with Dell and the actual machine hardware spec.

See this thread for a thread about a similar problem with a Compaq box.

This thread has information on the solution.

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At 12 JAN 2001 03:26PM Paul Boughton wrote:

to access EMM memory on any windows platform you need a line in the config.sys file saying device=emm386.exe ram. You will also need a line loading himem before this line.

Besure to add the drive and directory structure to point to where the emm386.exe program is.

The only thing that might change is which config file you add the command to.

This should work regardless of the PC vendor. If you need a reference look on Microdoft's web in the MSDN archives. Search on EMM386.

At 15 JAN 2001 05:57PM Aaron Kaplan wrote:

At 18 JAN 2001 01:26PM Wayne Ladwig wrote:

We had a similar problem with EMM on Dell Dimension CPU's. We had to go back one revision level BIOS on the PC from A-09 to A-08. May want to contact Dell Tech Support. Hope this is helpful to you.

At 18 JAN 2001 01:46PM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:

Interesting….the board seems to be killing postings occasionally.

The message should have been something like…

Paul,

If you check the threads posted you'll find that some vendors are shipping machines that will not allocate EMS memory no matter what settings are used. This isn't an MS problem, but an issue with the computer manufacturer.

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