Microsoft KB Archive/63441

Word: Missing Keystrokes When Using ANSI.SYS on 386SX

PSS ID Number: Q63441 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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MS-DOS

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It has been reported that activating ANSI.SYS on a 386SX with AMI BIOS will result in intermittent problems such as missing keystrokes or having the numbers 2, 4, 6, and 8 appear when using the direction keys.

This problem occurred using MS-DOS 4.01, AMI BIOS dated 30/Jul/89, and with various supporting chip sets by VLSI, Chips & Technology, and Intel.

A suggestion is to relocate ANSI.SYS into high memory via MS-DOS 5.0 “devicehigh” command, or by using a third party memory manager such as QEMM to relocate the ANSI.SYS driver into high memory.

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