MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN WINDOWS NT (AREV Specific) [Revelation On-Line Wiki]

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At 21 NOV 2000 09:01:38AM Dave Berkovsky wrote:

AREV Specific

We have been experiencing difficulty in making expanded memory

available in Windows NT.

I would appreciate any comments from developers using AREV V3.12

running under Windows NT.

Thanks in advance

Dave Berkovsky

dave@csi.com

At 21 NOV 2000 09:22AM WinWin/Revelation Technical Support wrote:

Dave-

In your config.NT file, do you have device settings for himem.sys and emm386?

Mike Ruane

At 21 NOV 2000 01:11PM Dave Berkovsky wrote:

Here is my config.nt

dos=high, umb

device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys

files=40

At 21 NOV 2000 02:56PM Paul Boughton wrote:

I am not currently at an NT machine to check this but from the earlier post I think you need a line saying

Device=%SystemRoot%\system32\emm386.exe

Without emm386 you will not have any expanded memory available.

At 21 NOV 2000 03:05PM Dave Berkovsky wrote:

Paul,

I can not locate emm386.exe file on my machine.

It is not in c:\winnt\system32.

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At 21 NOV 2000 06:25PM Warren wrote:

emm386.exe is not needed in WinNT. It doesn't even come with NT.

There have been reports of some machines simply not supporting EMS - Compaq in particular. This is a hardware issue and I'm not sure if it is a manufacturing problem or a trend of the future (no future support of EMS?).

However you have the proper entries in your CONFIG.NT file. You need to create a PIF for ARev or modify the _DEFAULT.PIF and turn on EMS in there. If you are running ARev from the Command/DOS prompt _DEFAULT.PIF needs to be modified.

At 22 NOV 2000 03:16AM kevin gray wrote:

If the unit is a Compaq EN with an inbuilt NIC therein is the issue!

We have just posted a final comment upon our earlier thread on this.

Compaq advise disabling the inbuilt NIC in setup mode and installing

another NIC as a short term fix.

This matter has been escalated to Level 3 support at Compaq Houston

and there is a new BIOS being written for that model. Liaise with

your Compaq supplier if this applies to your unit.

Kind Regards,

Kevin Gray

Graycorp

email kevin@graycorp.com.au

At 22 NOV 2000 09:28AM Dave Berkovsky wrote:

Machine is Dell Workstation 220

the settings in Arev Pif are as follows

EMS=4096

XMS=None

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At 23 NOV 2000 02:42AM Jonathan Bird wrote:

Your CONFIG.NT and Arev Shortcut Memory tab seem correct. Of course, you must still call the Arev executable with the classic syntax:

i:\Arev\AREV.EXE /X /M4096

Regards,

JB

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