nan@math.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) (12/20/90)
I asked this question awhile back and haven't had too many answers to it. Let me state my problem first. I have a 25 Mhz 386 with 4 Meg of RAM, AMI bios, running DOS 4.01, an Orchid ProDesigner II video card with 1 Meg, I've been having a lot of trouble installing the extented video drivers provided by Orchid, my problem is, after I install ANY driver, whether 640x350 mono or 1024x768x256, windows gives me a 386 protection error and I have to reboot. After that I can only run in standard mode, but that's not without its problems Most popular software like IconDraw, Wingif, Wintris, Screan Peace, HP Calculat or all give unrecoverable application error and crash windows. I have to run them in real mode. WinQVT is about the only program that does not crash windows but the font is too small and I have problems with backgroud transfer(another story). I assume these software are well-behaved since no one else seems to com plain. And I assume the drivers are ok too, again, other owners of the Pro II don't seem to complain. The error occur on every single driver, this leads me to believe that there is some intrinsic conflict between my card and windows. I discover when I click on Prog Manager-Help-About, my version of windows is 3.00.52, while all my friends have 3.0, also I don't have the item of Free System resources. Does any one else have this version. And could this be causing all the problems? Thanks for your help. Nan
mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) (12/21/90)
In article <1990Dec19.233115.28092@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>, nan@math.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
%% I asked this question awhile back and haven't had too many answers to it.
%% Let me state my problem first. I have a 25 Mhz 386 with 4 Meg of RAM, AMI bios,
%% running DOS 4.01, an Orchid ProDesigner II video card with 1 Meg, I've been
%% having a lot of trouble installing the extented video drivers provided by
%% Orchid, my problem is, after I install ANY driver, whether 640x350 mono or
%% 1024x768x256, windows gives me a 386 protection error and I have to reboot.
%% After that I can only run in standard mode, but that's not without its problems
%% Most popular software like IconDraw, Wingif, Wintris, Screan Peace, HP Calculat
%% or all give unrecoverable application error and crash windows. I have to run
%% them in real mode. WinQVT is about the only program that does not crash windows
%% but the font is too small and I have problems with backgroud transfer(another
%% story). I assume these software are well-behaved since no one else seems to com
%% plain. And I assume the drivers are ok too, again, other owners of the Pro II
%% don't seem to complain. The error occur on every single driver, this leads me
%% to believe that there is some intrinsic conflict between my card and windows.
%%
%% I discover when I click on Prog Manager-Help-About, my version of windows is
%% 3.00.52, while all my friends have 3.0, also I don't have the item of Free
%% System resources. Does any one else have this version. And could this be
%% causing all the problems? Thanks for your help.
%%
%% Nan
You simply have a DEBUG version of Windows, probably dated December 1989.
Get a normal one. All precited errors will effectively disappear.
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Adam Mirowski, mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE), tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEXkarl@hpscdc.scd.hp.com (Karl Watanabe) (12/21/90)
Not quite a solution to your problem, but I have an almost identical system: 33Mhz 386, AMI bios, Orchid Prodesigner II (1 meg), Dos 3.3. I don't know if Dos 4.0 causes any problems, but I don't have any problems with my Windows 3.0 in any of the video modes (including 1024x768). I have MS word for windows, MS Excel, screenpeace, wintris, and quite a few other graphics programs for Windows. The ultimate test is a new fractal program that uses all 256 colors and rotates the colors through the 16.7 million colors possible. I will comment that I had the unrecoverable application error, so I erased all my windows directories and reinstalled from scratch. The problem went away for 2 months, and I haven't had the errors again. I don't believe it is the video card or the drivers included. Maybe somebody out there might know what causes the "unrecoverable application error".