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From: collins@emperor.gatech.edu (Tom Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Win3.1 setup crashes and DESTROYS MONITOR ?
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:59:21 GMT
Organization: CERL-EE, Georgia Institue of Technology
Originator: collins@emperor

In article <1992Oct5.090107.5964@autelca.ascom.ch> nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes:
|>
|>I tried ot install MS-Windows 3.1 on my system. The following happens:
|>
|>	1. It crashed with errors in USER.EXE and GDI.EXE, of course
|>	   just at about the end of the installation, i.e. just
|>   .
|>   .
|>   .
|>		WHOOOOOM
|>	   the monitor went dark and is now gone forever.
|>	   If that was a coincedence of the monitor going to no-where
|>	   land and clicking on the 'Yes' button, my name shall
|>	   be changed to 'Rumpelstilz'.
|>	   This coincedence seems impossible to me !
|>
|>P.S.
|>How can I delete the 24MB swap file (permanent) the setup program
|>did create ?
|>Do I have to format the drive c: again ??
|>Knowing MS, I can imagine that I have to format the drive C:.
|>-- 

There is nothing special about the swap file except that it is hidden
and it occupies contiguous sectors.  You should be able to see it at
your root by typing "dir /a:h"  (showing hidden files).  You can delete
it by making it visible (using DOS attrib or various other utilities),
then deleting it like any other file.  Actually, you may not even need
to make it visible, if you know its name: 386spart.par

Regarding your monitor, you really can't rule out coincidence.  The most
likely way Windows (or any program) could damage your monitor would be
by programming your video adapter for a resolution outside the range of
your monitor, but it sounds like your monitor is a multiscanning type 
capable of whatever your adapter can dish out.  If you ever resolve this,
it would be interesting, so please post the outcome.
-- 
Tom Collins                               tom.collins@ee.gatech.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology           (404) 894-2509
400 Tenth St. NW, CRB 384
Atlanta, GA  30332-0540
From: eastwood@inline (David Eastwood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Trident 3.1 drivers and 8800 Trident Cards
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:42:16 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <ceoAz_u00WB=0mTUw9@andrew.cmu.edu> dp2r+@andrew.cmu.edu  
(Denise Pullen) writes:
> Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.ms-windows.setup: 5-Oct-92 Re: Trident 3.1
> drivers and.. by Iskandar Taib@silver.ucs 
> > Trident cards are the scourge of Windows users. The only thing they're
> > good for is for shooting holes through them. 
> 
> I don't think that this is entirely true. I have an 8900 and have no
> problems with it and windows. However, if and when I get another card,
> it will be an accelerator of much higher quality.
> 
> -D-

Seconded - my Trident 8900 works perfectly well, if a little slowly,
with Windows. To rephrase:

'Sweeping statements are the scourge of rational debate. The only thing
they're good for is for shooting holes through them'

:-)
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From: iroberts@pietro.ua.oz.au (Ian Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Equation Editor and TT Fonts
Summary: Well reported W4W/EE bug
Date: 8 Oct 92 04:22:24 GMT
Organization: Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: pietro.pichem.adelaide.edu.au

Just to spread the information...

The problem I had has been reported by _many_ W4W v2.0 users. I hope MS have
heard the grumbling.

There is a bug in the installation of W4W and EE to solve the problem of the
fence and MT Extra fonts do the following:

Use Control Panel|Fonts to delete the offending fonts (don't erase them from the
disk!) and then reinstall them immediately.

Problem fixed.


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                                                Univesity of Adelaide
                                                Australia
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: gwhite@raisinets.den.mmc.com (George White)
Subject: Windows stopped working 
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup 
Organization: Martin Marietta WIS
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:22:36 GMT

	I had Windows 3.0 installed on my 386sx 8mb ram. One day Windows stopped
working. It would come up with the MS logo then pop into the dos prompt. I tried
everything to get working again. I reconfigured memory in many ways. It still did
not work. When I try to re-install Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.1 the installation
goes as far as the part in the installation where the installation goes into
graphics mode then instant death. I reformated my fixed disk and reinstalled once
and it worked. Since then I have installed OS/2 which I like very much by the way.
Everything was working fine then again one day Windows (WIN-OS2) and the DOS
windows all stopped working again. It seems to me like it might be something to
do with my SVGA but why is it that everything else works.
	I am extremely frustated and I need help. P L E A S E if anyone out there
has seen this situation, and knows of a fix, respond!.
From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: HELP!  MS Win 3.2 claims can't create permanent swap file
Date: 12 Oct 1992 00:57:00 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: neuro.usc.edu

DOS 5.0 -- Windows 3.1 -- Control Panel -- 386 Enhanced -- Virtual Memory
selection generates the following popup message:

      "The partitioning scheme used on your hard disk prevents
      creation of a permanent swap file.  You can create a
      temporary swap file."

My disk is a 400 MB IBM 0661 SCSI connected via an Adaptec 1542b controller.
The disk was low level formatted using the Adaptec ROM BIOS.  The disk was
high level partitioned and formatted for DOS using MS DOS 5.0 fdisk & format
utilities.  The disk also contains partition #4 created by SCO UNIX SYSV/386
3.2r2.0 ODT 1.1.  The message only seems to appear when an SCO partition is
on the disk -- otherwise Windows seems to have no problem creating the swap
partition in a permanent file.

What can I do about this message?  I'd rather not have to deinstall UNIX to
change the size of my permanent swap file.

Thanks, AJ

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From: brdmar10@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Mark 'Peanut' Brady)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Eratic startup failure
Date: 14 Oct 92 12:51:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: uctvax.1992Oct14.105112.203106
Organization: University of Cape Town

I have a problem with windows 3.1. Every so often when I start windows up the
sartup sequnce fails, but if I jusy try again it works!

I'm running:
	a 386 25 /4Mram
	trident VGA (drivers installed)
        DOS is loaded high.

Problem TSR's may include:

	Genius mouse driver (ver 9.06)
	ncache (Norton Utils Ver 6 disk Cache)
		disabling this driver had no effect on this problem
	doskey
	himem.exe (ver suplied with win 3.1)
		(all memory above 1MB is configered as Extended mem
		 ie no expanded)

Has anyone else exprienced this problem?

Yours Mark 'Peanut' Brady
please reply to mbrady@frodo.cs.uct.ac.za

thank you.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: swesterback@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
Subject: Re: 32bit disk access?
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 12:13:32 GMT

In article <Bvst7p.KF@brunel.ac.uk>, ee91alk@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew L Kirby) writes:
> 
> I am using a Viglen 486SX with an NEC IDE 107Meg Hard drive, and
> I found that checking my 32bit disk access box cause the system
> to become very unstable. It eventually walked on my FAT's. Lucky

I have heard about problems using stacker with the 32 bit access enabled.
Can anyone confirm this?
Also SCSI-drives can't be accessed with 32bit access.

> I keep a backup tape handy! Anyway, I found no significant
> performance improvements in Dos windows, so I don't bother now.

To improve DOS-window performance you should buy an accelerated videocard!
That's in DOS-Windows mode; in fullscreen mode improvment can be obtained 
by buying a better computer! :)

> Has anybody else had similar problems?e
I have'nt.

Sten 
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Address: Mets{purontie  9 B19, SF-00630 Helsinki, FINLAND  Time zone: EET
Test the utility at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.mil::pd1:<msdos.dirutl>swxd303d.zip
NB! I am working, but not speaking for Nokia Telecommunications!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: Re: (casual) Problems with Logitech mouse in DOS box / new mouse driver
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:55:49 GMT

waynet@pendragon.CNA.TEK.COM (Wayne Turner) writes:

> I'm having a problem getting my Logitech mouse to work in a DOS
> graphics applications ...
> ... in some sessions the mouse cursor can be moved and in others it can't.

This seems to resemble the effect I encounter, and in text (not graphics) 
mode:
Most often, the mouse functionality in DOS boxes is perfect. 
I use the Norton Commander (NC) frequently in a DOS box. Only occasionally, 
the mouse function is blocked in that window (immediately after having 
started it) and will then certainly be activated after one command 
has been issued from NC. If I start NC explicitly from a regular 
DOS Command window, this never occurs (i.e. the mouse always works 
immediately then). Maybe that might also help your graphics application 
(perhaps starting them through a .bat file if not by hand?).

I retrieved the newer Logitech mouse drivers (version 6.1) a few 
days ago hoping the effect would vanish but it didn't. The new 
version doesn't seem to have any advantage at all, only disadvantages: 
one of my previous startup parameters ("dleft") didn't work anymore 
unless I moved it to another (time-consumingly separate) invocation 
of mouse.com in autoexec.bat. Also the parameter "ser 1" is ignored 
and it searches for the mouse instead which, too, is only waste of time 
if you know where your mouse is connected.
I deleted that stuff and I'm now using version 6.02 again.

Why do companies release versions which do not have any improvements?

Thomas Wolff
wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: swesterback@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
Subject: Re: How to start in 386 enhanced mode ?
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 12:07:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.010738.4066@ra.msstate.edu>, cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans) writes:
> In article <BvBGGL.4o4@NCoast.ORG> brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep28.084311.18791@a.cs.okstate.edu> saeed@a.cs.okstate.edu (SAEED FAISEL) writes:
>>>I have a 386/40 compatible & win 3.1.
>>>
>>>2. How can I make windows to make most use of the 4 MB ram ?
>>>   I am currently using the following config.sys
>>>
>>>	DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
>>>        DOS=HIGH,UMB
>>>        DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.SYS 1024 RAM
>>>        . . .
Myself i have nothing but DOS itself loaded high. I think Windows can 
make use of all memory itself. So i porbably don't need the EMM386.

> but the thing is, Borland C++ 3.1 will not load in DOS (at least on
> my 386/40) with QEMM386 with the NOEMS switch

It should load fine. Just be sure to include the \BORLANDC\BIN directory
in the PATH! Possibly you will also have to add the /X switch to the 
BC commandline.
Anyway i am almost sure that BC will work if you run it from Windows. 
BC makes use of DPMI memory provided by Windows or its own driver DPMILOAD.
There is no point to use EMM386 or QEMM to simulate EMS-memory if it's not
really required. BTW, programs that uses EMS are in my opinion old programs.
New programs uses eighter XMS, DPMI or VCPI memory management.

> my usuall setyup is device=qemm.sys ram noems .. is there someting
> wrong with using both switches, well hen i took NOEMS off, BC++ (DOS)
> workds fine.. and that was also in the little install booklet in the
> BC++ pacakgae... ? any ideas?  
Did you try to remove RAM instead of NOEMS?

Sten
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B.Sc. Sten Westerback         Telephone: +358+0 +5115871(work) +740049(home)
Address: Mets{purontie  9 B19, SF-00630 Helsinki, FINLAND  Time zone: EET
Test the utility at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.mil::pd1:<msdos.dirutl>swxd303d.zip
NB! I am working, but not speaking for Nokia Telecommunications!
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From: cellis@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Charles Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Print Driver Version?
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:57:18 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA

In article <719099297.1@davespc.mi.org> Dave.Beaujean@davespc.mi.org (Dave Beaujean) writes:
>
>Does anyone know how to find out the version of a
>print driver installed in windows 3.1? 
>	[remainder of post deleted]
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To find out the driver version, go into Control Panel : Printers

Select the printer and go into Setup.

The title of the setup dialog box will be the printer type. Go into 
About. The About dialog box will give you the driver version info.


[I don't know the answer to the question I deleted, how to get ahold of
the specific driver you mentioned.]

----
Charles Ellis - Biology Dept. - Northeastern Univ. - Boston, MA 02115
From: Robert_Ryan@brown.edu (Rob Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: ATI Wonder and 43 line DOS shells
Date: 11 Oct 92 17:01:42 GMT
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: brownvm.brown.edu
News-Software: BNN via BNN_POST v1.0 beta

I've been using 43 line DOS windows in Windows 3.1 using the MODE
CO80,43 in conjunction with ANSI.SYS, and have been reasonably happy.
Two questions though:

 1. I've discovered that if DOS is in 43 line mode before entering
    Windows, that anytime a DOS window is fired up, it defaults to 43
    lines.  This is great, but the cursor is a little screwed up (going
    from scan lines 4-7 rather than the usual 6-7: in other words, I get
    the half height cursor rather than the underscore cursor).  This
    happens regardless of whether I'm running DOSKEY or not (I only
    mention that since it's a TSR which could conceivably be setting the
    cursor to strange scan lines).  If I invoke MODE CO80,43 while in
    the Window, the cursor is fixed.  Is there anyway of preventing this
    funny cursor from appearing in the first place?  I wrote a TSR to
    force the cursor to be an underscore if the semi-block one is
    specified, but then the Insert key in DOSKEY doesn't make the cursor
    become a semi-block cursor.

 2. I have an OEM ATI Wonder card.  I also use Freemacs, a GNU-like
    emacs clone that deals with 43-line screens well.  When I use
    Windows SVGA driver, everything works fine.  But when I use ATI's
    driver, v3.10.08 (800x600x256, small font), when I first start Freemacs
    I get an error message saying:

        This application was unable to access the video display.  Its
        display was not updated.  Check the PIF settings to ensure they
        are correct.  If the display is erratic, redraw the display or
        restart the application.

    In actuality, there's nothing wrong with the display.  I've also
    tried (practically) all possible permutations of the video settings
    in the advanced section of the PIF to no avail.  This Windows dialog
    box only comes up the first time Freemacs is started for that
    particular DOS window.  Does anyone have suggestions for other ways
    of addressing this problem?

Thanks.

My configuration is DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, 386/33, 8Mb RAM, QEMM
v6.00, ATI drivers 3.10.08.

-- Rob
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From: cullhane@medusa.itc.gu.edu.au (Cullhane Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: WinQvt, Nupop & Pcnfs4.0
Date: 11 Oct 92 23:50:46 GMT
Reply-To: cullhane@medusa.UUCP (Cullhane Gibbs)
Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Greetings,

I am having much trouble getting all three of the above to run harmoniously
over a ni6510 comms card in my 386sx. I've fiddled around with pktmux but
only seem to get nupop and pcnfs running together harmoniously. Has
anyone got all these working together if so so could you please mail me with
some advice (i'd like to see your autoexec.bat, config.sys & qvt_tcp.rc
files - if possible).

	Any help greatly appreciated,

	Cully
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Moving files around
From: david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:44:32 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <1992Oct12.161208.10676@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mhatz@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Hatz) writes:
>
>Is there a way to move the locations of bmp files and some of the other files
>to a different drive and modify one of the *.ini files to tell win 3.1
>where to find them?  Rather than having all the crud in the windows and
>system directory???  Thanks.
>
>Mike
>
The only time you really need a BMP file in the windows directory is
when you use the control panel to change the wallpaper.  I placed all
my BMP's into a sub directory called BMP and when-ever I changed the
wall paper, I just modified the WIN.INI file.  ie wallpaper=<file>

All other programs which use BMP's that I can thick of can change
directory to access them.  I can't comment on the other files though.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan)
Subject: Re: Printing Problem ( Manual Page Feeder)
Keywords: Printer, Mystery.
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:27:40 GMT

sryan@vivaldi.trl.oz.au (Simon Ryan) writes:

>I am having a problem with printing from Windows to a manually fed
>printer. When Printing a large document, Windows continually comes
>back with a problem requestor, "Printer out of Paper" or "Printer
>Not Connected, check...." or similar. Anyway after resuming, the printed
>document contains corrupted lines. These lines seem to be divided into
>two regions, the first half of the line seems fine, the second half is
>split vertically from top to bottom, with the top and bottom halfs of
>the line interchanged... (It seems that characters are lost and the graphics
>printing mode gets out of sync for that line)

>The problem fixes itself at the end of the line.

I had a similar problem as you did...it kept printing rubbish (control
characters I assume) at the start of every new page, after the first
(manual feed as well). You might try getting the new epson drivers from
cica or something...it comes with a new version of unidrv.dll as well. I
can't remember the date, but will inform you as soon as I find out (I'm
not at home at the moment).

It fixed my problem...

Sean
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From: pwolsten@fraser.sfu.ca (Paul Wolstenholme)
Subject: Trident 8900 800 x 600 driver installation problem
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:55:17 GMT


I have just purchased a 486-33 dx with a tRident 8900 and I am running Windows 3.1 w/ Norton Desktopas the front end.  Currently it is running in 600 x 480 mode
When I try to install the 800 x 600 x 256 driver (either the generic or trident
drivers) when I reboot windows I get the message "sharing violation on drive c:
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can correct this?  

pwolsten@sfu.ca

 
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From: sshapiro@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stewart D Shapiro)
Subject: Okidata mu 92 driver wanted
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:22:27 GMT

Does anybody know if there is a driver for an Okidata mu 92 printer?
It is an old, but very reliable 9 pin dot matrix printer, and I would
like to be able to use it with Windows.  Windows came with a driver
for this printer, only if used with a plug-n-play chip that makes it
emulate an epson.

From: Dave.Beaujean@davespc.mi.org (Dave Beaujean)
Sender: FredGate@davespc.mi.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Print Driver Version?
Distribution: world
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:08:00 EST

Hi All!

Does anyone know how to find out the version of a
print driver installed in windows 3.1? I was told
to get a version 3.52 or later, because thaere was bug s
in earlier versions? I know of the landscapeorinet=270 but
anyone know of any other problems with the print
drivers before 3.52? ANyone know where I can get the updated
versions? Any help will be much appreciated!!!

Dave