Shawn wrote:
> I have a Quad 6600 Kentfield processor & I have Dos 6.22 & Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows XP & Vista on separate primary
> partitions all selected
> by a boot manager located in the MBR at boot time. Whenever I select dos or windows 98, either it hangs, reboots or if I'm lucky
> gives me an Emm386.exe
> error message that "a protected area of memory is corrupt" & then system stops. Is this doe to the multi cores & if so, can three
> cores be disable at boot time ?
as another post suggest, check the BIOS.
I have recently discovered the usefulness of a BIOS option
in (somewhat old, yet recent enough for me) AMI / Award Modular Bioses :
"PnP OS" : disable it and ol'good MSDOS will be happy.
well, i wish anyway i had a quad core CPU...
yg
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