First post, by lowlytech
I have an old dell 286 that has an option in the bios to allocate memory for EMS from total memory. I have 6 MB total and wanted to shave off 2mb for EMS. When I increment the EMS memory option in BIOS it does indeed take it away from total available memory. So when I save the settings and reboot the memory count only shows 4MB total RAM, so that extra 2MB is going somewhere for EMS use, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to access it. The MEM command shows 0 available EMS. I am running MS DOS 5.0 since I had an old original 5.25" edition of it. I know that I can't run emm386, but I know there is a emm286, but doesn't this just emulate EMS from XMS? I have also tried numerous SYS files like neatemm, m1207, umbdvr and HT12, but they say either hardware failure or something else like it can't find EMS memory. As far as the chipset on this board there is several faraday chips and a several WDC chips.
Any direction on what driver I actually need to use would be appreciated, or if I should scrap this, use all memory as XMS and emulate the EMS, but since the BIOS seems to have a provision for this I thought it would make more since to utilize it.
Thanks again..