Hello,
I read the topics about this problem, I have it too.
My problem is that if I use a dos 7.1 boot disk and I put in the config.sys the switch 'm9' in the emm386 line (so it can use as page frame E000 or something similar) ems is loaded, otherwise it doesn't load it.
(to run msdos 7.1 I did a FAT32 partition in my hard disk)
In Windows XP instead I can't find a way to load EMS.. I saw that there is the option to modify config.nt, but I don't know which is the corrispondent to 'm9' in the emm command line (it asks for B=xxxx, which is the number corrisponddent to m9?)
The fact that even in MSDOS it doesn't load at first make me think that the memory is used by some motherboard resource, but I wouldn't want to mess up the BIOS.. anyway why to run WinXP if I can't use USB or the video card?
I wanted to know if there is a solution to my problem, otherwise I'll have to use always my boot disk 😖