ron@augeas.cs.athabascau.ca (Ron Haukenfrers) (10/16/90)
I've just opened a brand new copy of Windows 3.0 and Dos 4.01 and I'm having a great deal of trouble getting windows to run in enhanced mode. My 386 has 4MB of RAM so I'd like to be able to use it. The problem is when I fire up windows the machine grinds a bit, brings up the Windows blurb and then promptly dies leaving the video in an alternate character set. I'm able to run windows just fine in real mode. This seems to be directly connected to DOS 4.01 as I've installed Win3.0 on the same machine but with Dos 3.3 and it runs in enhanced mode just fine. Can anyone shed some light on the problem? Included are a copy of my config and autoexec. It's probably something really simple and I'll feel like an idiot when I find the problem but in the meantime lets burn up some band-width. Thanks in advance. All flames should go to /dev/null ... oh right this is a DOS problem :-) CONFIG.SYS FILES= 30 BREAK=ON BUFFERS=20 LASTDRIVE=E SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:256 device=C:\himem.sys DEVICE=C:\EANSI.SYS DEVICE=C:\WIN\SMARTDRV.SYS 2048 512 INSTALL=C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE INSTALL=C:\DOS\FASTOPEN.EXE C:=(50,25) AUTOEXEC.BAT @ECHO OFF SET COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM VERIFY OFF PATH C:\DOS;C:\WIN APPEND /E APPEND C:\DOS PROMPT $P$G C:\DOS\GRAPHICS VER PRINT /D:LPT1 SET TEMP=C:\WIN\TEMP -- Ron Haukenfrers ron@cs.athabascau.ca (403)675-6332 Educational Computing Athabasca University
e4666881@rick.cs.ubc.ca (richard louie) (10/17/90)
I have installed Windows v3 and DOS 4.01 and an ALR BusinessVEISA
386/33 without any problems. Of course, I did do some modifications
to my autoexec.bat and config.sys files before Windows v3 was even
installed - I didn't need some of the DOS "options".
What didn't I include?
- APPEND (Both of them)
- FASTOPEN
- GRAPHICS
- EANSI (I have VGA)
Try getting rid of one of the programs or drivers in your
autoexec.bat and config.sys files one at a time. You should be
able to isolate your problem within a few hours.
Richard
e4666881@rick.cs.ubc.ca