On 8/24/2015 8:48 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: >> I am confident there are many 386 owners here - what do you use for XMS >> management on your systems? > Sadly, I don't share your optimism. I hope I'm wrong, but most people > with legacy machines just aren't active anymore. (Even I don't have > any old machines hooked up, for various reasons.) I guess you are wrong... > At this point, I'd almost wonder if it is a hardware problem. Of > course, the only way to find out is run a competing DOS (e.g. MS or > DR) and see if that too has problems. (Or memtest or whatever. Not > totally sure and can't remember about using the old DOS port of that, > ask Eric.) > I would first and foremost check that the RAM on that machine is actually OK (and the supporting hardware). For that, get the a copy of a boot disk (CD, USB or floppy, your choice) of the latest version of Memtest86+ (http://memtest.org/) and have it run at least 10 passes. This will also test if the standard ways to deal with A20 etc are working ok on that box...
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