MJB@cup.portal.com (Martin J Brown-Jr) (02/18/91)
I have an Everex Step 386/20 that has been running Windows 3.0
perfectly fine since W3 came out, using a Paradise Professional
in 800x600 mode, with 4 megs of ram.
Last night, I dl'd new Paradise drivers from Paradise and installed
them:
1) exit Windows
2) cd to Windows dir
3) enter setup
4) select "video display" to change
5) select "other"
6) put new drivers in a:
7) select a: drive as location of new drivers
8) select 800x600 driver
9) etc. end up back at DOS
10) enter windows
Windows logo appears; then dumps to DOS
WHAT!!!!???
Windows now refuses to run!, but does show logo screen.
Installing Windows from scratch (original disks) gets me past
Windows logo screen to the screen with the first dialog box with
the three check boxes (printers, something and something), and
the help icon in the lower right of the screen.
At this point hitting the "continue" button results in a dump to
DOS.
If I try and enter Windows from DOS, at this point (thinking setup
complete, maybe ;-> ) I get Windows startup logo screen then dumps
to DOS screen with the following on screen:
"Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run Windows in
386 enhanced mode;
"run setup again.
"x:*ebios
"Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run Windows in
386 enhanced mode;
"run setup again.
"x:*vddvga"
I can eliminate that "x:*vddvga" result by running setup, as in the
beginning, to install the new video drivers.
What is the *ebios file and where do I find it. It's not on
my Everex master disks or my Paradise master disks.
This is very frustrating, especially since I can't even install
Windows from scratch!!!
HELP!!!
Thank you.
- MJB -
USENET: mjb@cup.portal.comcscherry@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (02/18/91)
In article <39378@cup.portal.com>, MJB@cup.portal.com (Martin J Brown-Jr) writes: > I have an Everex Step 386/20 that has been running Windows 3.0 > perfectly fine since W3 came out, using a Paradise Professional > in 800x600 mode, with 4 megs of ram. Two things off the top of my head: 1: the *ebios isn't a file (at least that I can find) but tells the kernal that the system BIOS is IBM compatible (or AT&T, etc..) the line should be the first one under [drivers] in the system.ini file [drivers] ebios=*ebios you might want to check the file. 2: sounds like a bug in the new drivers. I'd try installing the old drivers, and see what happens -Chris
risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen) (02/19/91)
MJB@cup.portal.com (Martin J Brown-Jr) writes: >Last night, I dl'd new Paradise drivers from Paradise and installed >them: Windows now refuses to run!, but does show logo screen. >Installing Windows from scratch (original disks) gets me past >Windows logo screen to the screen with the first dialog box with >the three check boxes (printers, something and something), and >the help icon in the lower right of the screen. >At this point hitting the "continue" button results in a dump to >DOS. >If I try and enter Windows from DOS, at this point (thinking setup >complete, maybe ;-> ) I get Windows startup logo screen then dumps >to DOS screen with the following on screen: >"Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run Windows in >386 enhanced mode; > [etc] Hi! Did you, at the same time, install any supplemental SVGA-specific drivers to CONFIG.SYS, or any TSR:s to AUTOEXEC.BAT ? I once had similar problems with one other brand, which also uses Paradise chip set. The cure for my problem was to *not* use the supplemental program(s), with which you could re-program the palette, change overscan color, etc. For the set of drivers I used, I had to run 'VGAPLUS COMP' instead (which tells the SVGA card to be COMPatible with plain VGA). Btw, your problem may be even that you've run this kinda program just once: At least with my SVGA card, the settings made with the VGAPLUS program did survive a warm boot, so I wonder whether they survive a cold boot with the newer SVGA:s ... Terveisin: Risto Lankinen -- Risto Lankinen / product specialist *************************************** Nokia Data Systems, Technology Dept * 2 2 * THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK * 2 -1 is PRIME! Now working on 2 +1 * replies: risto@yj.data.nokia.fi ***************************************
dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) (02/19/91)
I assume you deleted the old version of Windows first? Sounds to me like your new software drivers have upset windows quite nicely. Try getting another set of disks and try those. Also when installing windows use a 'clean' config.sys i.e. one without items such as smartdrv.sys.... I'd also recommend the use of ordinary video if you can manage it, to start with i.e. none of the wonderful extras Paradise provide. That also means installing windows with standard vga drivers etc. Once you can get Windows running normally I'd suggest duplicating your working copy and examine what happens when you install the new drivers. The other thing you wanna do is check out your system.ini file. You mention ebios why? As a matter of interest the line for ebios should be inder [386Enh] and be of the form device=*ebios or device=hpebios.386, *ebios Okay start with that and we'll try and get a bit further, good luck, Dan