victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Victor Menayang) (05/23/91)
Well, here's another strange problem with Win3 that I hope
someone out there can suggest solutions to...
In standard mode my system always locks up whenever I try
to open a DOS application, unless I load ANY windows
application before that.
This does not occur in enhanced mode (I can open any
DOS applications any time).
The system is a 386/25 with 8MB RAM, and himem.sys, ramdrive.sys,
and smartdrv.sys loaded.
Thank you for any suggestion.
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Victor Menayang victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Internet)
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-------------------------------------------------------------dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) (05/23/91)
Standard mode and DOS apps don't mix too well I'm afraid. It's due to the strange memory mapping. Nothing you can do. It's purely a fluke that after running a Windows program you can run a DOS app. Cheers, Dan C.
victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Victor Menayang) (05/24/91)
In article <37140022@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) writes: >Standard mode and DOS apps don't mix too well I'm afraid. It's due to the >strange memory mapping. Nothing you can do. It's purely a fluke that after >running a Windows program you can run a DOS app. > >Cheers, > Dan C. Well, I still don't know what the real problem is but increasing system resources (buffers/files) seems to solve it. Thanks, Victor -- Victor Menayang victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Internet) vm@UTXVM (BITNET) ...!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!rtf1000 (UUCP) -------------------------------------------------------------
heilper@TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL (Andrei Heilper) (05/25/91)
In article <37140022@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) writes: >Standard mode and DOS apps don't mix too well I'm afraid. It's due to the >strange memory mapping. Nothing you can do. It's purely a fluke that after >running a Windows program you can run a DOS app. > >Cheers, > Dan C. I encounter a problem that may be similar and I would like to have some suggestions. I have a Deico 386 board with 2 WD 80Mb drives. The system runs fine under DOS 3.3 and in real mode Windows, but it hanged in 386 enhanced mode. Finally I narrowed the problem by disconnecting the second disk, which immediately enabled the enhanced mode (the system has also 8M RAM and a fully populated Trident). It is really weird (Windows is not supposed to interact with the hard disk controller...) Andrei H.