Totally off topic, but I figure there are some experts here that I have not found on pc newsgroups. I'm working with Data Light's ROM-DOS, putting a BIOS extension at 0 d000:0 that refers to data at 8 0000:0. My hardware seems to be working with the stuff in conventional memory, but neither view-xm nor rom-dos can find the stuff in extended memory. In a PAL (16R8), I'm generating chip selects to drive the EPROM and a 74hc245 bus transceiver based on latching LA23..LA20 and A19..A16 on the negative edge of ALE. For the chip enable to go true, AEN also has to be low (not in a DMA cycle). Anyone have more experience with the ISA bus? I've got a logic analyzer coming in this morning to dig into it. One question that remains to me, however, is how does the motherboard memory map decoding know where to go to find memory? Stuff in extended memory COULD be in SIMMS, or could be on the ISA bus. Does it go looking during POST and map stuff accordingly? THANKS! Harold