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can amy one help?

Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 11:13 pm
by palmacca
Hi just brought a new geforce 4 ti4600 and installed it only now when booting up pc it saiys unable to load base frame address does any one no what this means or can help to solve it . thanks :(

can any one help?

Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2002 11:44 pm
by palmacca
Hi again well i got some more info to my last report it actually says:
EMM386 =unable to set page base frame address if any one no's please tell me.

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 5:19 am
by soupy
What motherboard are you running?

Did you completely uninstall the old video drivers first?

Re: can any one help?

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2002 4:34 pm
by NickS
palmacca wrote:Hi again well i got some more info to my last report it actually says:
EMM386 =unable to set page base frame address if any one no's please tell me.
EMM386 is a DOS memory manager which requires a "window" or "frame" in the BIOS area of the first 1Mb of RAM. The size of this base frame is usually 16 Kbytes, and the memory management then makes extended memory above 1 Mbyte (or expanded memory, if you remember that) appear in this frame in "pages" of 16 Kbytes.

This message will normally mean either that you have specified a particular range of addresses which is already in use, or that EMM386 cannot find enough space to create a window of the specified size. Why this message should suddenly appear is puzzling; other things you could check are whether BIOS shadowing and/or caching for the video BIOS or for any of the BIOS area is enabled in the CMOS.