simon@hpspwr.enet.dec.com (Curiosier and curiosier...) (07/11/90)
In article <4921@milton.u.washington.edu>, markad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Mark Donnell) writes... >Well, I have a similar but, I think worse problem. After typing win >(or win /3, to make sure), I get the welcome screen, then the screen goes >blank. and remains that way - for hours. Apparently the system is running >(I can alt-f alt-x <ret> to exit, and it does), but the screen stays blank. I got a similar thing. The problem was that I loaded an incorrect video driver for my Paradise VGA card -- my version of the card did not support the resolution that I wanted. I had to re-install Windows and change the driver in the setup. Then it worked. --------- Leo Simon simon@pwrvax.enet.dec.com Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain. -- W. Churchill
philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil BARRETT) (07/14/90)
In article <4921@milton.u.washington.edu> markad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Mark Donnell) writes: >Well, I have a similar but, I think worse problem. After typing win >(or win /3, to make sure), I get the welcome screen, then the screen goes >blank. and remains that way - for hours. Apparently the system is running >(I can alt-f alt-x <ret> to exit, and it does), but the screen stays blank. > >I am using AMI Aug 15 (?) 1988, and have a genoa video card. >Has anyone else run into similar problems with either of these? > In general, people who are seeing this kind problem should try excluding the region c000 - f000. There are cases where ROM doesn't have a valid signature or whatever and Windows doesn't recognize it as ROM. To exclude, in the [386enh] section of system.ini, add the following line: emmexclude=C000-F000 If this cures the problem, try cutting the exclude region down (say, C000-C7FF) until you find out the region that is causing the problem. You dont want to exclude all the address space because Win3E uses the ROM area for I/O buffer mapping. This is described in the sysini2.txt file in your windows directory. Phil I am speaking for myself. The above opinion is not necessarily that of my employer.