mcorlett@ibmpcug.co.uk (M A Corlett) (01/16/91)
Re: Microsft Excel and Windows 3.0 on a '286 box I've been having truble getting Excel running on my AT clone (Phoenix BIOS, 1.5 Mb memory) Symptoms are that I get an 'Unrecoverable Application Error' dialog box. Sometimes the error is after Excel loads, trying to load a file; other times it is during loading, so that the program manager dies and dumps me back at the DOS prompt. Running in real mode causes the machine to hang, so I suspect a '286 protection fault. Any suggestions? Mike Corlett mcorlett@ibmpcug.co.uk -- Automatic Disclaimer: The views expressed above are those of the author alone and may not represent the views of the IBM PC User Group.
chin@fornax.UUCP (Hong Wai Chin) (01/18/91)
In article <1991Jan16.090525.9647@ibmpcug.co.uk>, mcorlett@ibmpcug.co.uk (M A Corlett) writes: > Re: Microsft Excel and Windows 3.0 on a '286 box > > I've been having truble getting Excel running on my AT clone > (Phoenix BIOS, 1.5 Mb memory) > > Symptoms are that I get an 'Unrecoverable Application Error' dialog > box. Sometimes the error is after Excel loads, trying to load a file; > other times it is during loading, so that the program manager dies > and dumps me back at the DOS prompt. > I have the same problem to. The difference is that I have an IBM model 33sx running with PCNFS and WINDOWS. My EXcel for Windows just wouldn't run on network drive and have been giving me "Unrecoverable Appl.. Error". I ended up putting EXCEL.EXE on the hard drive and it runs fine. WHY????? My winword have no problem running from the network drive at all. Any suggestion? fred chin@fornax.UUCP chin@cs.sfu.ca