efowler@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Fowler) (09/18/90)
Greetings Netlanders! I have been having trouble running Windows on an Epson in standard mode. I have an Epson Equity 386/20 with win3, 3 megs extended, Video7 VGA, no network, no printer, no nuthin' nonstandard nohow. Windows fails spectacularly in standard more, e.g. it reboots or locks up totally immediately. Enhanced mode seems to be OK. Some possibly relevant facts: (1) A friend remarks that Epsons use a nonstandard set of interrupts for the video. (2) Another friend reports that he had the same problem with a Video7 board. The V7 people gave him a program called V7DIAG.EXE (or something like that) and some instructions for setting dipswitches. He says he followed them and it did not work, but I thought I would mention it anyway. (3) I have the standard windows 3 VGA driver installed. Trying to install the video7 driver when I install Win3 gets a screenfull of total trash in the middle of the installation process(trash = wavy lines, snow, etc). (4) I have done enough windows related work to know that this is not the garden variety of HIMEM.SYS problem. No device drivers except SMARTDRV load after HIMEM. The memory in enhanced mode seems to be OK. Any help appreciated. =Eric
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger) (09/18/90)
In article <7683@milton.u.washington.edu> efowler@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Fowler) writes: >Greetings Netlanders! >I have been having trouble running Windows on an Epson in standard >mode. I have an Epson Equity 386/20 with win3, 3 megs extended, Video7 >VGA, no network, no printer, no nuthin' nonstandard nohow. Windows fails >spectacularly in standard more, e.g. it reboots or locks up totally >immediately. Enhanced mode seems to be OK. Some possibly relevant facts: > >(1) A friend remarks that Epsons use a nonstandard set of interrupts for >the video. Don't know. > >(2) Another friend reports that he had the same problem with a Video7 >board. The V7 people gave him a program called V7DIAG.EXE (or something >like that) and some instructions for setting dipswitches. He says he followed >them and it did not work, but I thought I would mention it anyway. Which V7 board? They make several. I have a Fastwrite VGA and it works fine in all modes on my 386/25 at 800 X 600 resolution. > >(3) I have the standard windows 3 VGA driver installed. Trying to install >the video7 driver when I install Win3 gets a screenfull of total trash >in the middle of the installation process(trash = wavy lines, snow, etc). I have no problems with either the V7 driver (Only the 800 X 600 16 color mode works with a Fastwrite, the board cannot handle higher modes.) or the Win 3 640 X 480 256 color mode. > >(4) I have done enough windows related work to know that this is not the >garden variety of HIMEM.SYS problem. No device drivers except SMARTDRV >load after HIMEM. The memory in enhanced mode seems to be OK. > >Any help appreciated. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254