acidec@umbio.med.miami.edu (Artur Cideciyan) (06/04/91)
I use a 80286/12 MHz with 1 Meg of memory & ATI VGA wonder with built in bus mouse. I am running DR DOS 5.0. I load HIMEM.SYS only and nothing else, run Windows 3.0. It runs in standard mode with about 620K at start up. In any one of the Windows applications (e.g. Calculator) the keys pressed on the keyboard sometimes show up DOUBLE ... as if a character is sent to the window for both the press and the release of the key. Interestingly, if I don't load HIMEM.SYS, Windows runs in real mode with about 370K memory at start up and the doubling of the keys pressed does NOT occur, everything work fine. Any help on the possible reasons will be greatly appreciated. I also would like to know what I can rule out ... e.g. DR DOS or hardware or what. Thanks in advance Artur Cideciyan acidec@umbio.med.miami.edu
gt0652b@prism.gatech.EDU (I don't know man, he was just here) (06/04/91)
In article <1991Jun3.175636.7779@news.miami.edu> acidec@umbio.med.miami.edu (Artur Cideciyan) writes: >I use a 80286/12 MHz with 1 Meg of memory & ATI VGA wonder with built >in bus mouse. I am running DR DOS 5.0. > >I load HIMEM.SYS only and nothing else, run Windows 3.0. It runs >in standard mode with about 620K at start up. In any one of the >Windows applications (e.g. Calculator) the keys pressed on the >keyboard sometimes show up DOUBLE ... as if a character is sent to >the window for both the press and the release of the key. The problem doesn't seem to be with Himem.sys, but rather the fact that windows is running in standard mode. In stanard mode the system addresses all of the 1 meg of ram as specified in the specifications for Protected Mode operation. My guess is that some hardware in your system (maybe the bus mouse) is writing to a section of high ram used by windows. Your mison, should you accept it, is to find confliction ram and exclud it from the extened memory used by himem sys and windows. If you have replaced any equipment since you first installed windows, try installing windows from scratch again. Windows is supposed to be smart enough to catch little things like this. If the truth won't set you free, then lie! Josh Guttman -- ***************************************** They are one person, * Joshua Isaac Guttman * They are two alone, * gt0652b@prism.gatech.edu * They are three toghther, * (404)355-3908 Home/(404)355-0001 Work * They are for eachother. - C.S.N.Y.
jimmat@microsoft.UUCP (Jim MATHEWS) (06/07/91)
In article <1991Jun3.175636.7779@news.miami.edu> acidec@umbio.med.miami.edu (Artur Cideciyan) writes: >I use a 80286/12 MHz with 1 Meg of memory... > >I load HIMEM.SYS only and nothing else, run Windows 3.0. It runs >in standard mode with about 620K at start up. In any one of the >Windows applications (e.g. Calculator) the keys pressed on the >keyboard sometimes show up DOUBLE ... as if a character is sent to >the window for both the press and the release of the key. In Standard mode on a 286, Windows is frequently enabling and disabling the A20 line. On most AT compatible systems this requires sending commands and data to the keyboard controller. Some (usually older) systems seem to get confused when a keypress and A20 command occur at the same time--resulting in missing or duplicate keystrokes. An updated BIOS and/or keyboard controller (if available) might resolve the problem. Note that the vast majority of systems don't have this problem. Your mileage may vary... Jim Mathews. I speak only for myself, and I'm not even sure about that!