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Trouble Loading in Protected Memory

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Posted: 8 Aug 2002

Q:
We're having trouble with iFolder not loading in protected memory space. What's up with that?

A:
Bet you're using a Bio Star motherboard. Other motherboards using Athlon and Pentium 4 processors have worked fine.

Here's what's happening. STARTIFOLDER.NCF attempts to load APACHE.NLM into protected memory. APACHE.NLM requires support from CLIB.NLM, which in turn attempts to auto-load all of its supporting NLM's (THREADS.NLM, NLMLIB.NLM, REQUESTR.NLM, LIBC.NLM, and NIT.NLM). There appears to be a hardware incompatibility with the Bio Star motherboard when CLIB.NLM is loaded into protected memory if it must auto-load all of the supporting modules.

Here's the fix. If you modify STARTIFOLDER.NCF and add a command at the beginning to manually load LIBC.NLM into the IFOLDER protected memory space first (LOAD ADDRESS SPACE = IFOLDER LIBC), then, when APACHE.NLM loads, CLIB.NLM and the rest of its supporting modules will auto-load successfully.

For more info, see TID 10066142

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