derek@wubios.wustl.edu (Derek Morgan) (12/07/90)
I have a strange problem with QEMM 5.10 and Windows. Windows will boot up in 386 enhanced mode, but the colors will be wrong. There is a shift towards yellow and green, so that white is a rather dim yellow-green. Also, the writing on the 3-D bars and icons is not visible. Any non-Windows application can not be seen (background color=foreground color, I would guess). If I boot Windows in one of the other modes, everything is fine. The only noticeable difference in the way that it boots up is that normally, (w/o QEMM, or in real or standard mode), the "please wait" hourglass appears after the WIndows Screen on a black background. With QEMM, a blue screen with a green border appears (!), then the puke-yellow screen comes up with the hourglass. Even the chess desktop is puke yellow. Hardware is an IBM PS/2 with VGA. Any help or fellow horror stories would be appreciated. Quarterdeck says that this is anew one on them, too. Derek Morgan
jayb@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jay Bartley) (12/09/90)
derek@wubios.wustl.edu (Derek Morgan) writes: >I have a strange problem with QEMM 5.10 and Windows. Windows will boot up in >386 enhanced mode, but the colors will be wrong. There is a shift towards >yellow and green, so that white is a rather dim yellow-green. Also, the >writing on the 3-D bars and icons is not visible. Any non-Windows application >can not be seen (background color=foreground color, I would guess). I guess I'm doing something RAEL wrong because I can't even get Windows to run in enhanced mode at all with QEMM 5.10 or 5.11. Right now I wouldn't care if the colors were right or not. I would appreciate any help I could get that would show me how to get into enhanced mode. I'm running a 386 w/ 4meg if that helps. Thanx. Jay T Bartley | Pessimist: University of Oklahoma | A person who sees a falling star, jayb@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | and wishes that it won't hit him. -- Jay T Bartley | Pessimist: University of Oklahoma | A person who sees a falling star, jayb@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | and wishes that it won't hit him.
tonyl@ivysoft.UUCP (Y. Tony Lin of Ivysoft) (12/14/90)
In article <1990Dec6.200158.14103@wubios.wustl.edu> derek@wubios.wustl.edu (Derek Morgan) writes: >I have a strange problem with QEMM 5.10 and Windows. Windows will boot up in >386 enhanced mode, but the colors will be wrong. There is a shift towards >yellow and green, so that white is a rather dim yellow-green. Also, the >writing on the 3-D bars and icons is not visible. Any non-Windows application >can not be seen (background color=foreground color, I would guess). > >If I boot Windows in one of the other modes, everything is fine. The only >noticeable difference in the way that it boots up is that normally, (w/o QEMM, >or in real or standard mode), the "please wait" hourglass appears after the >WIndows Screen on a black background. With QEMM, a blue screen with a green >border appears (!), then the puke-yellow screen comes up with the hourglass. >Even the chess desktop is puke yellow. > >Hardware is an IBM PS/2 with VGA. Any help or fellow horror stories would be >appreciated. Quarterdeck says that this is anew one on them, too. > I had the same problem on my PS/2 model P70. I was able to correct this problem by using a different mouse driver. When I installed the Windows 3.0 I did not have any mouse driver installed but the Windows still see the PS/2 mouse and it worked for several months. Later I found some other DOS package such as PC Tools will not work without a mouse driver installed, so I installed a MOUSE.COM driver -- the problem you described above started. After digging for a while, I use a different mouse.sys in the CONFIG.SYS, the problem went away. I have mouse in DOS and Windows, and the problem disappeared. I don't have my P70 here, but I recalled the size of the MOUSE.SYS is much larger than MOUSE.COM. Also I used DEVICE=MOUSE.SYS /Y to install it to himem. Hope this work for you and other users. :-) -- Y. Tony Lin Phone: (901)763-2956 Fax: (901)683-8099 Ivysoft International, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee UUCP: {fedeva,chromc,rutgers}!dynasys!ivysoft!tonyl