Memory Card Explorer for RICOH

Troubleshooting

Title: Required Memory Window (D0000) may not be available.

Environment: Windows Me

[OK]: Closes the dialog and MCERICOH does not start.

Cause:

MCERICOH requires a 4kbyte memory window to communicate with the PC card controller. If the default memory window is not available at the MCERICOH startup, you receive the above error message. Normally ,this means that another system device has already reserved the D0000-D3FFF memory window at Windows startup.

Solution / Workaround:

Reserve a 4kbyte memory window for MCERICOH using the following procedure.

1. Open the Control Panel and double-click the "System" icon.
2. Select the "Device Manager" tab, select Computer and click "Properties".

3.. Select "Memory" in the "View Resources" tab.

In the example below, the memory window above D8000 looks available for MCERICOH.

4. Edit System.ini to exclude the next 4k memory window at Windows startup.

System.ini
[386Enh]
EmmExclude=D400-D7FF

5. Restart Windows.

6. Open a Command Prompt and enter the following command.

C:\WINDOWS> cd \progra~1\memory~1 [Enter]
C:\Program Files\Memory Card Explorer for RICOH> mcericoh /wd8 [Enter]

The result using the /wd8 switch in the example did not allow MCERICOH to start successfully. However, use of "mcericoh /we0" could start the MCERICOH. So, the information visible in the device manager is sometimes does not so accurate.

7. If MCERICOH starts without the "Memory Window may not be available" error message, memory window configuration has finished.
If the same error message appears at the MCERICOH startup, repeat steps 4 through 6 again for the next 4kbyte memory window.

Memory Window	/w option	Memory Window	/w option
D000-D3FF (default)	mcericoh /wd0	E000-E3FF	mcericoh /we0
D400-D7FF	mcericoh /wd4	E400-E7FF	mcericoh /we4
D800-DBFF	mcericoh /wd8	E800-EBFF	mcericoh /we8
DC00-DFFF	mcericoh /wdc	EC00-EFFF	mcericoh /wec

Once you succeeded in starting MCERICOH without this error message, the memory window setting is stored in the mcericoh.ini file. This allows you start MCERICOH just by clicking on the MCERICOH program icon the next time.

If you could not succeed in starting the MCERICOH even after trying all of the above settings, your computer hardware does not allow MCERICOH to use a 4kbyte memory window in the memory range D000-EFFF.
You can either give up using MCERICOH with this computer, or try again after changing the computer's hardware configuration.

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