krause@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (krause) (02/05/91)
I hope that this is the correct or a least a correct group in which to post this. I have just got DR DOS version 5.0. I followed the installation instructions which set up a new autoexec.bat and config.sys for me. After copying all the new files setup prompted me to do a warm boot. I did this. A message appeared on the screen saying 'loading' followed by the question 'load memory max software'. I typed in 'y'. I was rewarded by the message 'Hidos.sys - incorrect version of DR DOS'. Up to this point all I did was follow the installation instructions. Installation is pretty much automatic. I thought that there might be some old versions of DOS files on the disk, so I reformatted the disk and let the DR DOS installation sofware create the DOS partition. Hidos.sys still came up with its error message. I phoned up the support line, this got me through to a company called Megatech. They sent me a disk with upgrade software on it. The dates and file sizes on the upgrade disk were the same as the original software. I loaded the software all the same. It made no difference. I later found out that if I did a cold boot, i.e switched the machine off and on, hidos.sys installed without error. Hidos.sys will not install after a warm boot. I am not impressed with software that comes up with this sort of error. It looks like sofware that has not been checked properly. I have lost confidence in it. What other problems are lurking? Can anybody help? Will hidos.sys work on other '286 machines? Does it just not like Tandons? Is there an upgrade I need to get a working version of DR DOS? Should I stick to MS DOS? I have installed it on a Tandon PCA20. This is an AT compat. with two 20 meg hard disks, 2 Megs of ram and a vga adapter fitted. Thanks in advance, David Krause
berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) (02/08/91)
Regarding HiDOS.sys... Things have a tendency of staying around during a warm boot, especially protected memory applications, which is probably the case for extended memory drivers. The best thing to do whenever rebooting the machine, is to hit the reset switch; that way you know everything is out. I don't have DR DOS 5.0, but this is probably the cause. -e.b. ============================================================================== Eric Berggren | "Round and round the while() loop goes; Computer Science/Eng. | Whether it stops," Turing says, berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu | "nobody knows."
phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (02/08/91)
In article <1239@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>, krause@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (krause) writes: > I have just got DR DOS version 5.0. I followed the installation instructions > which set up a new autoexec.bat and config.sys for me. After copying all the > new files setup prompted me to do a warm boot. I did this. A message appeared > on the screen saying 'loading' followed by the question 'load memory max > software'. I typed in 'y'. I was rewarded by the message 'Hidos.sys - incorrect > version of DR DOS'. Up to this point all I did was follow the installation > instructions. Installation is pretty much automatic. > (1) Check your hard disk thoroughly (e.g. CHKDSK/B/M/C under DRDOS, or use HDDIAG, the shareware (?) hard disk diagnostic). I had a problem with loading DRDDOS unless I did a (really) cold boot - turned out to be a flakey disk. (2) A cold boot could make a difference if you had some strange software loaded, or if the BIOS does something extremely strange during start-up. Are you saying that it always works now, or always works after a cold boot, or just did once? (3) You don't have a virus, do you? Mark Aitchison.
Greg.Smith@p11.f477.n104.z1.METRONET.ORG (Greg Smith) (02/08/91)
In a message to All <06 Feb 91 08:13> Krause wrote:
Kr> on the screen saying 'loading' followed by the question 'load memory max
Kr> software'. I typed in 'y'. I was rewarded
Kr> by the message 'Hidos.sys - incorrect
Kr> version of DR DOS'. Up to this point all I did was follow the
Kr> I later found out that if I did a cold
Kr> boot, i.e switched the machine off and
Kr> on, hidos.sys installed without error.
Kr> Hidos.sys will not install after a warm
Kr> boot.
Kr> I am not impressed with software that comes up with this sort of error. It
Kr> looks like sofware that has not been
Kr> checked properly. I have lost confidence
Kr> in it. What other problems are lurking?
Kr> Can anybody help?
Kr> Will hidos.sys work on other '286 machines?
Kr> Does it just not like Tandons?
Kr> Is there an upgrade I need to get a working version of DR DOS?
Kr> Should I stick to MS DOS?
Kr> I have installed it on a Tandon PCA20.
Kr> This is an AT compat. with two 20 meg
Kr> hard disks, 2 Megs of ram and a vga adapter fitted.
I wouldn't stick with MS-Dos, as Dr-Dos should work fine. It would
appear that you have aome sort of Hardware flaw or BIOS error. I
have almost an identical setup myself, and Dr-Dos works fine every time.
Are you sure you have the high memory available or set up correctly
for your system? Check the CMOS setup. I've been running Dr-Dos 5 since
the 28th of December, so I doubt there is an upgrade. It sounds like
the people you reached on the phone didn't know what they were doing
anyways. Make sure, with the manual, that Hidos isn't interfering with
any other TSR's, BIOS, or page frames. Quaterdecks Manifest would
help you here. Besides, with manifest which comes with QRAM, you'd
have something even better than hidos!
Greg
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