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From: dbasson@mattek.csir.co.za (Dominique Basson  )
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Subject: Re: Boot-up sometimes fails.
Date: 28 Apr 1993 12:55:46 GMT
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In article <1993Apr28.053700.12929@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> cs416530@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Matthew I Gillard) writes:
>Subject: Boot-up sometimes fails.
>From: cs416530@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Matthew I Gillard)
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 05:37:00 GMT
>Sometimes when I boot up windows 3.1, after the windows logo comes up it han
>gs, I am using Dos 6 and doublespace, and a 5 meg temp swap file on an
>uncompressed drive.
>But when I press the reset button on the computer,  windows boots up
>fine... Why is this??? is it dos 6?
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>Matthew Gillard,                    | Blessed are they who run around
>Computer Systems Engineering,       | in circles, for they shall be 
>La Trobe University,                | known as wheels.

Dos 5 never used the area $E000 - $EFFF, as well as some others. If you have 
any cards that use this are (such as a LAN card), you might get this 
problem.

Use the X=$E000-$EFFF in your EMM386.EXE line in config.sys. If you run 
MemMaker then instruct it retain inclusions and exclusions.
