randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) (04/25/91)
I cannot run "win /3". If I do so I get the opening screen, and then get dumped to dos. Following that, my floppy disk suffers intermediate errors. Even from dos, if I have tried "win /3" in the past my floppy acts up. This is only solved by a hard re-boot. "win /s" works fine. Absolutly no problem. Floppy works fine. Even worse, two friends of mine have the same hardware setup, and theirs works fine. The only hardware differences are: - They have 2MEG installed by the vender. - I had 1 MEG, and then had three more installed later by a local shop. Near as I can tell, nothing (video bios, etc.) is mapped into RAM. - I have a modem in COM1, and a mouse in COM2. COM3 exists, but has absolutly nothing on it. - They have only a mouse in COM1, and nothing else. I'm about ready to send the machine back to the vendor, which I *DONT* want to do. Does anybody have any bright ideas???? -Randy The rest of my hardware configuration: 4 Meg RAM 386 SX AMI Bios 3.5 inch floppy 40 MEG IDE Hard drive Super VGA card using the vendors driver (same as my friends whose machines work) -- ============================================================================= Never, ever attempt to graduate. They'll make yo do a thesis first. ============================================Randy@ms.uky.edu==================
vahamri@eos.ncsu.edu (VINCENT A HAMRICK) (04/26/91)
I'm sitting at a DECstation and not my 386, so I can't double-check myself, but maybe the problem is that windows doesn't realize you installed the extra 3 MB. Is the smartdriver in the config.sys or the call to it in the autoexec.bat? When you run windows in standard mode, check under one of the menus for the About Windows and it should be 2 MB if it is seeing beyond the 1 MB. If I'm way off base, let me know... -Vince vahamri@eos.ncsu.edu
B.C.Phillips@massey.ac.nz (B.C.M. Phillips) (04/29/91)
I *sometimes* have the same problems, in that I get to the Title screen, then get the hourglass, then when the screen redraws ( and I guess the programs in the win.ini load=c:\... line start to load ) I get kicked out to DOS. I have an Agiler mouse and was told not to load the driver in DOS B4 I started windows and let windows take care of the mouse. But changing this did not help. So I nuked the load call to Change cursor in win.ini, which just happens to change the default cursor to my cursor at about the same time it usually kicks me out to DOS, and I haven't had any further problems ( where's that piece of wood, damn plastic office furniture :). Cheers Brenden. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brenden Phillips - B.C.Phillips@massey.ac.nz, Computer Consultant, gamer and hacker, School of Math & Info Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------