jnonim

I think XP Home has the same issue, if that's any more accessible to you. We have a work system with Home on it that displays the same issue (not sure if we have an XP Pro image for it to see if it's the exact same problem). Also a couple of people in the above thread mention having the issue on Home and not Pro. (That's what drew me to this thread). Anyway, not sure I'll get a chance to isolate it any better. Having enough fun getting our own software out the door let alone testing MS's for them! Also the need for EMS was personal, not work related. All the best... ~j

Yes, can confirm. The same system, only change being a clean install of MCE. EMS is now fine under MCE after the above BIOS mod. Hope this helps... ~j

Greetings - In the end, disabled the option ROM in BIOS setup which opened up 64k window which it seems to need to be able to get a page frame. Still not sure why the same system, same BIOS settings (before above change), was fine under XP Pro and not MCE... That was the bit I was most curious about, as in my case it clearly wasn't a mo-board or hardware issue -just a different XP version issue. Did try setting EMM=RAM in config.nt and have nothing in autoexec.nt and still had problem before disabling option ROM. Have deleted the EMM=RAM line now and all's well. Thanks for the replies and hope the above helps someone else. ~j

Greetings - did anyone find a solution to no EMS under XP Home / XP MCE? The MCE system was fine with XP Pro - but after ages of MS KB & Googling I haven't come up with anything. Thanks for any help. ~j