aoresteen
Experienced Member
Got my 386SX running and the CD-ROM drive issue sorted out. Now I'm trying to tweak the memory. Normally I'd use RAMBOOST but it hangs on launch. Doing it by hand. It has 16MB of RAM installed & the i387 NPU.
On boot *AFTER* the config.sys loads the computer crashes. The first line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT is PAUSE which I never see. I assume that the system crashes trying to load the AUTOEXEC.BAT or just before.
Here's my CONFIG.SYS:
REM CONFIG.SYS FOR 40 MHz 386SX Computer
REM A. ORESTEEN
REM 6 July 2013
REM For PC DOS 7 Rev 1
NUMLOCK=OFF
BREAK=ON
DOS=high,UMB
FILES=170
BUFFERS=30,0
FCBS=4,4
LASTDRIVE=Z
STACKS=9,256
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\dos\ANSI.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\dos\SETVER.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\mitsumi\mtmcdai.SYS /D:MTMIDE01
SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS /E:2048 /P
DEVICE=C:\UTIL\PAUSE.SYS
Everything loads fine from the CONFIG.SYS. PAUSE.SYS halts the CONFIG.SYS so I can see the screen and when I press enter I get the error:
SYSTEM HALTED NO ROM BASIC.
When I boot without using DOS HIGH & EMM386.exe all is well.
ISA cards that are installed are:
1. Floppy controller
2. IDE controller with LPT2 & COM ports 1 & 2
3. VGA card
4. MDA card with LPT1
My guess is that EMM386 is loading stuff into an area of memory that is not free.
Ideas?
Thanks!
On boot *AFTER* the config.sys loads the computer crashes. The first line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT is PAUSE which I never see. I assume that the system crashes trying to load the AUTOEXEC.BAT or just before.
Here's my CONFIG.SYS:
REM CONFIG.SYS FOR 40 MHz 386SX Computer
REM A. ORESTEEN
REM 6 July 2013
REM For PC DOS 7 Rev 1
NUMLOCK=OFF
BREAK=ON
DOS=high,UMB
FILES=170
BUFFERS=30,0
FCBS=4,4
LASTDRIVE=Z
STACKS=9,256
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\dos\ANSI.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\dos\SETVER.EXE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\mitsumi\mtmcdai.SYS /D:MTMIDE01
SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS /E:2048 /P
DEVICE=C:\UTIL\PAUSE.SYS
Everything loads fine from the CONFIG.SYS. PAUSE.SYS halts the CONFIG.SYS so I can see the screen and when I press enter I get the error:
SYSTEM HALTED NO ROM BASIC.
When I boot without using DOS HIGH & EMM386.exe all is well.
ISA cards that are installed are:
1. Floppy controller
2. IDE controller with LPT2 & COM ports 1 & 2
3. VGA card
4. MDA card with LPT1
My guess is that EMM386 is loading stuff into an area of memory that is not free.
Ideas?
Thanks!