ucoerp@swuts.swbt.com (1897] Robert Paster) (12/20/90)
> >HELP !!!!! I need some assistance, PLEASE!!!!! > >I just loaded Windows 3.0 and Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.1 won't run from >Windows. If I exit Windows, Lotus runs fine. I'm running on a 286 >clone, with a 40 Mb hard drive, a VGA monitor, and 5Mb of Ram (1Mb on >the motherboard and 4Mb on a Parity Plus memory board). Each time I >"double click" on the Lotus icon on the desktop, the Lotus logo screen >comes up, and then a "not enough memory to run" message comes up. Then >I am returned to the Windows desktop. > >I tried to change the 123.pif file to show only 128 Kb of memory needed, >but this had no effect. > >Please let me know of any ideas you may have to correct this situation >at the address below. > >Thanks a lot. > The above was my previous posting, earlier today. I now have some added information. I changed the 123.pif file to show "XMS required" from 0 to 1024 and the "XMS limit" from 0 to -1. After doing this, I got all the way into 123 and automatically loaded WYSIWYG, but then got three lines of messages, parts of which read "invalid opcode ......" the dots being some number and "general failure". These messages appear and disappear so quickly that I can't read them all. After this, I exited Windows and changed 123 to not automatically load WYSIWYG upon entry. I went back into Windows, and 123 loaded fine. I then manually loaded WYSIWYG and it ran fine, until I went to exit 123, then I got the "invalid opcode" and etc messages. Any help????? -- Bob Paster One Bell Center UUCP - swuts!ucoerp Room 12-A-02 Southwestern Bell Tel. Co. St. Louis, Missouri 314-235-2741 63101-3099
leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) (12/20/90)
In article <582@swuts.swbt.com> ucoerp@swuts.swbt.com (1897] Robert Paster) writes: >>I just loaded Windows 3.0 and Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.1 won't run from >>Windows. If I exit Windows, Lotus runs fine. I'm running on a 286 >>clone, with a 40 Mb hard drive, a VGA monitor, and 5Mb of Ram (1Mb on >>the motherboard and 4Mb on a Parity Plus memory board). I ran into the opposite situation ... worked fine under Win3, but failed miserably under DOS ... some of the symptoms were very similar. My suspicion, based on a (finally) successful 123v3.1/win3 installation on a secretaries machine, is that your machine is having trouble with the DOS16M memory manager. In our case, we had to (in the autoexec.bat) use the command "set dos16m=9" *AND* reduce from turbo (10MHz) to snail (6MHz) mode. That combination allowed it to function correctly in both cases. Note: The dos16m=9 was arrived at through trial & error ... on a 10MHz 286, 9 or 10 are PROBABLY the right values ... if you just got the package, you can use the 6mo FREE lotus prompt hotline ... they may have already discovered the right combo for your machine. leoh@hdw.csd.harris.com Leo Hinds (305)973-5229 Gfx ... gfx ... :-) whfg orpnhfr V "ebg"grq zl fvtangher svyr lbh guvax V nz n creireg ?!!!!!!? ... znlor arkg gvzr