Jason wrote:OK, I have. . . .
Gigabyte 7N400L Motherboard
Jason, first you should have in mind that, in order to provide EMS memory to DOS programs, Windows needs to find a free 64kB memory area in the upper memory region, between 640kB and 1MB. This is how the original EMS memory cards worked in the original PC-XTs and this is still the only way to simulate it under Windows if you are not using full hardware emulation (like DosBox does) or virtualization (like VMWare and VirtualPC).
However, several modern motherboards do not present any free memory in this region, making it impossible for Windows to emulate EMS memory when you run DOS programs. From previous threads like this one and this one, it looks like motherboards based on NVidia chipsets (like your GA-7N400L) have this kind of limitation.
You may try to disable some features in your BIOS that could release the appropriate memory blocks, like support for USB keyboards (somteimes called "USB legacy support" in the BIOS), this usually works for some boards but I am not sure it will do the trick for you. If it doesn't, then I am afraid there is no other solution except DosBox, VMWare or VirtualPC.
Regards,
Major Grubert
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