TITLE:              Loading a Page Frame on a NEC Ultralite Versa
DOCUMENT ID:        TID15354
DOCUMENT REVISION:  2
DATE:               14MAR95
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NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
Novell DOS 7

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SYMPTOM:

Trying to load a page frame with NOVELL DOS 7 EMM386.EXE does not
work consistently on a NEC Ultralite Versa machine.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

It works with other dos versions, but with Novell DOS 7, there is
seldom a free 64Kb range of memory free.  There are some areas being
defined as DOS System of about 4k being placed in upper memory which
are breaking up the contiguous memory.

SOLUTION:

There is a temporary configuration that will allow the page frame to
load. The following configuration has been tested lightly, but will
allow the page frame to load everytime.  Note that the EMM386.EXE
line is too large to fit on the linel.  I have moved part of the line
to the next line, but when being used, these must be on the same
line.  This configuration could be useful for them to give some
flexibility. These machine make use of some PCMCIA cards.  For this
reason, and for reasons of BIOS, the exclusions shown are
recommended.

Note that with the following configurations it is possible to get
more conventional memory free than when using MSDOS v6.2.

          ECHO = 1.  STANDARD MEMORY CONFIGURATION

          ECHO = 2.  EXPANDED MEMORY CONFIGURATION

          ECHO = 3.  MULTITASKING CONFIGURATION WITH NO EXPANDED
MEMORY

          ECHO = 4.  MULTITASKING CONFIGURATION WITH EXPANDED MEMORY

          ECHO = 5.  HIMEM.SYS CONFIGURATION

          ECHO =

          ECHO = ENTER SELECTION [1,2,3,4,5]

          SWITCH STANDARD,EXPANDED,MULTI,MULTI_EMS,HIMEM

          GOTO COMMON

          :STANDARD

          DEVICE=C:\NWDOS\EMM386.EXE DPMI=OFF FRAME=NONE
/E=D000-D3FF,E000-EFFF           /U=C000-CFFF,D400-DFFF,B000-B7FF 
(<-- this is a continuation of the line above)

          RETURN

          :EXPANDED

          DEVICE=C:\NWDOS\EMM386.EXE DPMI=OFF FRAME=AUTO
/E=D000-D3FF,E000-EFFF

          /U=C000-CFFF,D400-DFFF,B000-B7FF  (<-- this is a
continuation of the line above)

          RETURN

          :MULTI

          DEVICE=C:\NWDOS\EMM386.EXE DPMI=ON MULTI FRAME=NONE
/E=D000-D3FF,E000-EFFF

          /U=C000-CFFF,D400-DFFF  (<-- this is a continuation of the
line above)

          SET CONFIG=MULTI

          RETURN

          :MULTI_EMS

          DEVICE=C:\NWDOS\EMM386.EXE DPMI=ON MULTI FRAME=AUTO
/E=D000-D3FF,E000-EFFF

          /U=C000-CFFF,D400-DFFF  (<-- this is a continuation of the
line above)

          SET CONFIG=MULTI

          RETURN

          :HIMEM

          DEVICE=C:\NWDOS\HIMEM.SYS

          RETURN

          :COMMON

          DEVICE=C:\NWDOS\DPMS.EXE

          DEVICE=C:\NWDOS\SETVER.EXE

          SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P

          BREAK=OFF

          BUFFERS=5

          FILES=60

          FCBS=4,4

          LASTDRIVE=Z

          HISTORY=ON,512,ON

          COUNTRY=1,,C:\NWDOS\COUNTRY.SYS

          DOS=HIGH,UMB

          STACKS=9,256

          REM PCMCIA DRIVERS

          echo Loading SS365SL....

          DEVICEHIGH=d:\apps\pcmcia\SS365SL.EXE /SIRM  0ABC /IIRM
02BC /PWRON 341 /PWROFF 9C4

          echo Loading CS...

          DEVICEHIGH=d:\apps\pcmcia\CS.EXE /IRQ 0B

          echo Loading CIC...

          DEVICEHIGH=d:\apps\pcmcia\CIC.EXE /BAS D6 /SIZ 6  /CSSIZ 8
/NWBAS DC /NWSIZ 10

SPR # 998075

No fix will be provided.  As a result of Novell's decision to focus
on network computing

technologies, the company has announced that it will no longer
enhance or modify the Novell

DOS 7 and DR DOS retail products.  Development for these products was
discontinued in July

1994.

KEY WORDS:ND7

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