MS-DOS 6.22 negative memory.

[Chaotic42]

Hey guys. I know that this is an old system, but we have to work with what we've got. One of our computers that runs AXS, a music and spot scheduling program, thinks that we have -32768K of memory.

The exact error is:

EMS v4.0 reports -32768k free, -32384k total, EMS memory

emm386 says that we have 32,768K. We have 65,536K, which might be where it gets the negative 32MB. Any ideas? I don't think it's using high memory, so it's performance is horrid.

It's a 200MHz Pentium MMX with a 720MB hard drive.

Thanks!

 

[ProviaFan]

Hmm, perhaps EMS doesn't support more than 32MB of RAM? You could set up EMS with 32MB and XMS with 32MB, but only if your programs support that. Sorry I can't help more, it's been years since I've dealt with DOS much. 🙁

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: jliechty
Hmm, perhaps EMS doesn't support more than 32MB of RAM? You could set up EMS with 32MB and XMS with 32MB, but only if your programs support that. Sorry I can't help more, it's been years since I've dealt with DOS much. 🙁

Heh, yeah, I'm out of practice too. I tried to get my boss to let me hook up our "new" Pentium 2 systems (with Windows 98), but he won't let me.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[Arrgghh]

According to this link 32 megs is the max for dos 6.2, but the author does have a workaround.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Arrgghh
According to this link 32 megs is the max for dos 6.2, but the author does have a workaround.

Cool, thanks!