DETERMINING IF AN XMS DRIVER IS INSTALLED
The recommended way of determining if an XMS driver is installed is to
set AH=43h and AL=00h and then execute INT 2Fh. If an XMS driver is
available, 80h will be returned in AL.
Example:
; Is an XMS driver installed?
mov ax,4300h
int 2Fh
cmp al,80h
jne NoXMSDriver