AWEUTIL.EXE Program Resident In Memory Causes System Hangs, Reboots

• Some utilities, e.g. Quarterdeck QEMM.COM, OPTIMIZE.COM will not run properly with AWEUTIL.EXE resident in memory. Please unistall AWEUTIL.EXE before running the failing programs.
• In order to run AWEUTIL.EXE properly with 386MAX memory manager, please do the following:
  • Disable High RAM by adding the following line in the 386MAX.PRO profile file;
    • e.g. 1 EXCLUDE=lowaddr-highaddr (i.e. exclude all of the unused ROM address space)
    • e.g. 2 EXCLUDE=A000-DFFF (i.e. suppresses creation of High RAM but allows the address E000-EFFF to be used for EMS Page Frame.)
• If QEMM Stealth ROM feature is enabled in your system. Please disable QEMM Stealth ROM feature before trying to run AWEUTIL.EXE by;
  • running the QEMM QSetup.EXE program, or
  • removing the ST:M or ST:F parameter of QEMM386.SYS in CONFIG.SYS file