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Original Poster Posted 2011-01-03 16:16 ·  中国 广东 广州 鹏博士宽带
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Regarding the problem that SMARTDRV cannot be loaded in DOS! And the error report!!

config.sys
device=himem.sys
device=emm386.exe noems novcpi i=b000-b7ff
Dos=High,Umb

I tried several DOS versions, and SMARTDRV could not be loaded in all of them.
The error report is as follows:
SMARTDRV cannot be loaded because the XMS driver, HIMEM.SYS is not loaded, check the config.sys file for a device=HIMEM.SYS command line.
I tried to modify config / replace HIMEM.SYS, but it didn't work:
Error: unable to control A20 line!
XMS driver not installed
I tried to modify config.sys / replace HIMEM.SYS / add the EMM386.exe command line again, but it still didn't work:
An error has occurred, but the correct message could not be found.

Hope to find out the reason why SMARTDRV cannot be loaded!!! Thank you!
Floor 2 Posted 2011-01-09 14:43 ·  中国 上海 电信
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Never disabled the Fast A20 Line in the CMOS setup. I don't know if disabling it will affect the loading of HIMEM.SYS. Please take a look at how to set it in CMOS.
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