th82787@lehtori.tut.fi (Heinonen Tomi) (10/24/90)
I have some difficulties with windows3. I installed windows3 succesfully and it worked well when I used normal VGA 640*480 display. Then I installed a new driver for my Tridend SVGA-video card and some difficulties appeared. My computer: EXPRESS 386 25 MHz Videodisp. Trident VGA 512 KB memory 2MB Well.. When I started windows first time after the new video driver was installed nothing appeared on screen. Windows started but it didn't displayed anything. I tried to boot my machine, but it didn't helped. I tried to start it in standard mode. Suprise.. It worked, but every time I tried to start it in enhanced mode it didn't worked. I started to minimize my configuration. When I uninstalled smartdrc.sys It started with enhanced mode. Now it Works well, but when I try to install smartdrive, enhanced mode will not work. I tried to install smartdrv and that is what happened: 1) Display didn't work at all. 2) I uninstalled smartdrv 3) enhanced mode didn't work at all after that 4) I started windows with standard mode and ti worked 5) enhanced mode still dead 6) I booted computer many times. No help 7) I started win with standard mode 8) I made some changes. For example I changed the wallpaper. 9) I saved the changes. After that windows started well with enhanced mode. Now it works, but you can believe thet I would like to use smartdrv. I tried to use other caches like pctool's PC-CACHE. No help. Windows didn't start at all with enhanced mode. If I tried to install smartdrive I had to do all the things 1..9 to get it work again. Now if you have any ideas what's wrong please tell me. I have also another problem.. I can't use windows application terminal in enhanced mode. My mouse is in com1 and cardmodem in port 4. Modem is Ventel halfcard 2400. When I start terminal in enhanced mode the program says that com4 is used for dos applications and suggests for me to use another port. Then it says that no ports available. Is it possible to use terminal in enhanced mode? It works well in standard mode. One more question: Any good ftp-sites for windows3 ??? -- Tomi Heinonen th82787@tut.fi Tampere University of Technology -------------------------------------------------------------------- Atomikatu 6 A 19, 33720 TAMPERE, Finland (tel. +358 31 185 757)
mk@vall.dsv.su.se (Magnus Karlson) (10/25/90)
I have a somewhat related problem which I am wondering if anyone have a solution for. I have a 386 machine with a Nec Multi Graphics Engine display board (and beta versions of there 3.0 drivers), everthing works okay with smartdrv, but when i tried to allocate some memory (2MB out of 8MB) to a ramdrive windows starts but when it have displayed parts off the desktop but no icons it will crash with application error in enhanced mode, real mode works (don't remember if standard mode worked). If part of the problem I have to set lastdrive=F to be able to load ramdrive since a-e already exist. Could somebody help please? Magnus Karlson mk@vall
bg11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian E. Gallew) (10/26/90)
Enhanced Mode **REQUIRES** two megs of ram. Not almost two megs, but a
full two megs. I had the same problem and realized that my
2MB-DOS-<Insert.cache.drive.of.choice> left too little for windows. If I
tried to force Enhanced Mode, It would either hang, exit, reboot, or
trash my CMOS, none of which I really appreciated.
Hope this helps.
-Brian
You drop the bomb -more-
It goes off... -more-
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