Ray, > The PC architecture cannot do DMA above 16MB. It's just not possible. > Since the PC was designed to run in less than 640KB, no one ever expected > it to be a problem. You have over 90MB of RAM, so now it's a problem for > you.
Thank you very much for your message. It was very descriptive. > 4. Use the 'swapout' program (from ftape) which tries to force the kernel > to swap out a contiguous chunk of RAM below 16MB. I'm installing it right now. Let's see what happens. It looks like it does work. Thanks. > 5. Use an Alpha or SPARC. Would you give it to me? ;) > 6. Pull out some SIMMS and only install 16MB of RAM. And what do I do with Netscape, The Gimp and Staroffice 4.0? ;) > 7. Go back in time and shoot the PC engineers. If I had the oportunity, I should would have. Salutacions, Pere ---- __o Ultima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 ----- _`\<;_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/