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First post, by MichaelWeaser

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I am having an issue with a cyrix mediagxm laptop, when emm386.exe is loaded it causes power.exe to crash, which causes DOS To restart, the way I figured it out is use F8 and execute config.sys and autoexec.bat line by line , when I do that emm386.exe loads and then when power.exe loads DOS completely crashes and restarts the computer. Does anyone know what I can do about this???

Reply 1 of 7, by lazibayer

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Do you need emm386? You can try qemm if you need emm.

Reply 2 of 7, by vladstamate

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He probably needs emm386 more than power.exe. I would either not run power.exe or if you do, run it before emm386 (I don't think it needs that). Or, not run emm386 at all like the poster above me suggested.

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Reply 3 of 7, by MichaelWeaser

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vladstamate wrote:

He probably needs emm386 more than power.exe. I would either not run power.exe or if you do, run it before emm386 (I don't think it needs that). Or, not run emm386 at all like the poster above me suggested.

Actually I have tried running power.exe before emm386.exe and it does the same exact thing , But can't there be something done to get everything working correctly?? I am thinking maybe there are memory location issue I am thinking EMM386 might have memory allocated that needs excluded from it or something like that. I am having another issue which I need to exclude a certain memory location from emm386 for a pcmcia driver, and emm386 want to give issues saying - warning: unable to set page frame base address--ems unavailable

Reply 4 of 7, by vladstamate

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You can try downloading a memory tester like memtest (they have a DOS version) and see if you have bad memory.

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Reply 5 of 7, by MichaelWeaser

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vladstamate wrote:

You can try downloading a memory tester like memtest (they have a DOS version) and see if you have bad memory.

Tested the RAM it isn't bad , plus tried another ram stick that I know isn't bad, and it does the same stuff. I was told I need to actually use a utility to check what memory is being used I was told you can check that with MSD or another program, because I need D000-DFFF excluded from EMM386.exe and is giving the , warning: unable to set page frame base address--ems unavailable. I have no idea why most PCMCIA drivers require D000-DFFF excluded . I googled the issue and that EMM386 wants to use that area for an EMS page , and can't find another page open or something like that

Reply 6 of 7, by MichaelWeaser

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lazibayer wrote:

Do you need emm386? You can try qemm if you need emm.

Used QEMM386.sys, it does the same thing , and yes I need a emm386 and power.exe , EMM386 is needed for a PCMCIA driver, and then the PCMCIA drivers yells at me if power.exe isn't enabled.

Reply 7 of 7, by MichaelWeaser

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I fixed the issue, I had to change the mode of Power.exe to APM mode, Which is Power.exe STD , without that setting it was running power.exe in ADV mode which saves power by detecting what applications or drivers are idle , and it doesn't need APM, Because the laptop is APM compatible I was thinking maybe the problem with emm386 if I enable APM mode in Power , and yup it fixes it. Somehow the power.exe ADV mode was messing with EMM386.exe