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From: dfraser@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (David W Fraser)
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: Diamond SpeedStar 24x
Organization: State Looniversity of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:00:57 GMT

In article <4f2G=Qi00WB7FOaHZn@andrew.cmu.edu> tn10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tony Niderost) writes:
>I have a Speedstar 24x and it IS a pretty fast card for the money.
>However, there are other cards, such as the Paradise Windows Accel that
>is pretty much identical for a few bucks less. The 24x currently has a
>bug in its 256 color drivers that makes Winword 2.0 crash when accessing
>the Tools|Options menu. Their tech support staff was worthless, and they
>never returned my frequent voice-mail help requests. They are working on
>a fix for the driver, but no news yet (does anyone have any news?) 

Is this only under Winword 2.0, or under winword 2.0a & b as well?
I have 2.0a and I am using the 1024x768x256 driver and it doesnt crash.
Ive used the drivers in release 1.0 and 2.02.  Am I just lucky or does this
only happen at a lower resolution?
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From: mcsbc2gw@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: HAWAII MESSAGE, LOOKING FOR DAVID?
Date: 20 Nov 92 11:41:05 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

iF YOU ARE READING THIS MESSAGE
AND YOU ARE FROM HAWAII
THEN DO YOU KNOW OF SOMEBODY CALLED DAVID IN THE TECHNICAL DEPT?

PLEASE FORWARD HIS E-MAIL ADDRESS SINCE i HAVE SOME STUFF TO GIVE HIM
REGARDING A QUERY HE MADE ABOUT MY SYSTEM. 
i HAVE LOST HIS ADDRESS.

E-MAIL MCSBC2GW@DCT.CO.UK
THROUGH USENET-NEWS.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt)
Subject: Re: Can't pipe to NUL in a dos session - Help please!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:22:27 GMT

fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:

>It's possible that in your AUTOEXEC you loaded a TSR and piped its
>output to NUL in order to avoid seeing the startup text on the screen.
>Since the TSR never exits, it may not have closed the standard output
>device (NUL, in this case), and thus further attempts to modify that
>device result in a sharing violoation.

Oooh, that's interesting.

I always thought that piping > NUL was just a
fancy @ECHO OFF statement, but this comment leads
me to believe that it is not as innocuous as I
believed.

Could you explain "Since the TSR never exits" in
more detail?


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Andrew          
Colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: ANAVARRO@vm.poly.edu (Anthony F. Navarro)
Subject: Can't pipe to NUL in a dos session - Help please!
Organization: Polytechnic University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 09:06:28 EST

I've been running Windows on a Novell LAN for nearly a year now.  It's
not been without it's share of headaches, but everything's been running
fairly smoothly until yesterday.
 
When in a DOS session, be it at the command line or in a batch file,
if something is piped to NUL ( i.e. dir >NUL ) i get a "sharing violation
reading drive c - Abort, retry, fail" error.  I get this at the command
line and in my batch files.
 
Testing has found that if the SHARE program is removed from the AUTOEXEC,
this problem will dissappear, but I am hesitant to remove it from all 60 of
my machines.
 
The funny thing, and I don't have the slightest idea if this is related,
is that this problem happened the day after our data processing department
upgraded the cards in our network hub.  Can this possibly be the problem?
 
Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
 
--Anthony
 
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From: bruce@bruces.frontiertech.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Bad hard drive = no memory?
Date: 16 Nov 1992 15:21:36 GMT
Organization: Frontier Technologies Corporation
Reply-To: Bruce@FrontierTech.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: bruces.frontiertech.com

Hi netters, 
 
 I hope someone can confirm or disprove my theory on this so 
I know what to do with my disk drive.  
 I have a Gateway 386.  It used to have 4 MB RAM and a 
65 RLL hard drive.  I recently upgraded it to 8 MB RAM and 
a 245 MB Seagate ST3283A hard drive.  The first Seagate had 
to go back due to bad bearings, so I am now working with a
replacement (same model number).  

The problem is this:  Windows will intermittently "decide" that it
is out of memory.  Usually the load is only Progrman and Write, and 
maybe a shareware spell checker.  I am certainly NOT taxing the 
memory capacity.  The symptoms range from Write reporting
"Not enough memory to repaginate or print" to Windows repeatedly
reporting "Extremely low on memroy.  Close some applications."  
When the latter happens, I have to reboot the machine because 
Windows won't let me shut down Program Manager (since there 
apparently isn't enough memroy to free memory).  

These problems seem to occur more frequently when I turn on 
Windows 32-bit access for the swap file, adding to my suspicion that
the drive is at fault.  

One other possible suspect is Borland C++ 3.1, which I installed
just after the new hard drive.  Could some of its virtual drivers be 
messing with memory?

I do know the drive and/or controller are not 100% healthy, because
I cannot reboot the machine with the hardware reset switch without
getting a HDD Controller Failure on the Power On Self Test.  

So, has anyone had similar experiences?  Can anyone verify for sure
that this is due to the drive. I don't want to keep exchanging the 
drive if the problem lies elsewhere.

Thanks very much in advance for any light you can shed on this
for me.

Bruce Backman
Software Engineer
Bruce@frontiertech.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: ckl@dec3.ncku.edu.tw (ckl)
Subject: ET4000 Non-interlaced driver needed
Organization: NCKU Tainan Taiwan 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:10:43 GMT

Where can I find ET4000 Non-interlaced driver for Windows 3.1 ?
or further, ET4000 NI True-color driver.
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                                    Kuanliang Chen
                           E-MAIL : ckl@dec2.ncku.edu.tw
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: anthony@meaddata.com (Anthony Napier)
Subject: Win 3.1 and Soundblaster 2.0	
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:58:23 GMT
Reply-To: anthony@meaddata.com

Whenever I try to run a DOS game using SB (from windows)
I get the message: The soundblaster is in use by another
application.  The only other thing using the SB is 
windows itself, as I have it set up for system events.
Is this normal, or do I have something setup wrong?
Please E-Mail me, if the answer is of interest I can
summarize to the net.


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From: jmhorns@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Jon Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: trouble with Ahead SVGA and MSW3.1
Date: 21 Nov 92 18:33:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Great Beyond

Hi,

    I'm not a subscriber to this news group, so forgive my not finding the FAQ.
Please mail all replies to my e-mail address below.

    I have a 486-33 with AMI BIOS and an AHEAD SVGA with 1 Meg.  I started 
having problems after loading a Z-NIX version of Windows 3.1.  Problem is
most easily duplicated by playing five or six rounds of solitare.  Abruptly the
cards turn black, but the background remains green.  If I hit ctrl-alt-delete,
the card changes resolution to print the reboot message, but the message 
appears to have ASCII escapes embedded, and is unreadable.  If I return to
Windows, the problem seems to go away (for a while anyway).

    This problem is evident when I use Microsoft's memory managers or 386MAX.

    This problem also appears when I create obtain a DOS prompt, make it a 
DOS Window, and then return to full screen DOS.  When I exit this DOS session,
all of my windows icons are black.  I can temporarily clear this by 
ctrl-alt-deleting as above.

    I have tried excluded memory in windows.ini, but suspect I've got the
wrong memory address ranges.

    I downloaded a "new" Ahead driver from ftp.cica.indiania.edu, but it 
doesn't help.  I have tried Microsoft's VGA (800x600) driver, but have the
same problems.

    Any help trouble shooting this would be appreciated.  Thank You.

	Marc Hornstein      jmhorns@afterlife.ncsc.mil
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:59:34 CST
From: <U60126@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Help me in using Winword2

I have a problem in using equation editor in Winword2. When I choose
some of the mathematical symbols, they show incorrect pictures on the
screen. Can anyone fix this bug? By the way, I use a Canon BJ-10e printer,
does it have something to do with this problem? Because it always warns
me that the printer which I use cannot offer the correct output format.

Thank you for your help!!!!!

Stephen Hwang <u60126@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: ati
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:40:57 GMT

tedwards@cam.nad.northrop.com (Tony Edwards 27541) writes:
>Need help looking for ATi XL VGawonder 
>windows 3.1 drivers i do not have ftp 
>so if someone could please mail them to me 
>i would be gratfull
*----
ATI has a BBS, from which you can download what you need.
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	Mike Berger
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas)
Subject: Re: QEMM and Windows 3.0
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 23:30:20 GMT

In article <By35J9.DDE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
>mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:
>>I never bothered to upgrade from QEMM 5.1x and Windows 3.0 to the newest and
>>latest versions, so I relaize these are outdated questions, but....
>
>>   PLEASE do not tell me to upgrade!  I *know* I can upgrade.  I just can't
>>afford to do that right now.
>*----
>Upgrade.  The upgrade for QEMM is only $ 35.  If you really can't afford
>that, then you'd better not try running QEMM and Windows.  Isn't your
>work worth more than $ 35?

Yes.  But before you can spend $35, you have to *have* $35.  I'll upgrade
when I can afford to.  Right now, I do my best to make do with what I have.
iFor some of us, money is so tight that even a seemingly small amount like
$30 or $40 is not trivial.

-- 
John Mechalas                                          "I'm not an actor, but
mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu                                 I play one on TV."
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Can't pipe to NUL in a dos session - Help please!
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 04:26:52 GMT

colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt) writes:

>I always thought that piping > NUL was just a
>fancy @ECHO OFF statement, but this comment leads
>me to believe that it is not as innocuous as I
>believed.

Since I have not programmed TSR's, I must first explain that this is
information I have heard on the net, but I have no direct experience.

When you run a command and redirect its output via >NUL, the shell
(command.com) opens the NUL device as a file and passes this file handle
to the program.  The program writes its output to this file and thus the
output goes nowhere, essentially the 'ECHO OFF' behavior.  However, the
file is still opened by DOS and the application still performs write
operations on this device.

Most programs terminate when they are done, and so the file that they
are writing output to is then closed for them.  However, in the case of
a TSR, the program does not exactly terminate, because it stays resident
in the machine.  So, if the program is written poorly and the programmer
forgets to close the output file, then that means the output file for
that program remains open forever, or at least until you reboot the
machine.

I'm not sure how the sharing code works, but SHARE is a program which
prevents simultaneous conflicting access to files and devices.  For
instance, it will prevent to programs from trying to write to the PRN or
COM1 device (which is a very good thing!).  I am not sure, but I believe
that DOS does not differentiate when it comes to the NUL device, and it
prevents conflicting accesses to that device as well.

So if a TSR is installed with its output redirected to >NUL and it does
not close the file as part of its installation, then SHARE will prevent
other programs from trying to write to >NUL because another program is
using it.

Now, the short version:  Go into AUTOEXEC.BAT and remove all the
redirections to >NUL, then reboot and see if your problem goes away.  If
it does, then what I said above is causing it.  Find out which program
is causing the trouble, and don't redirect that program's output to
>NUL.

If your problem does not go away, then that means I'm wrong.  Please let
me know if I am.

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From: dmittleman@misvms.bpa.arizona.edu (Daniel Mittleman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Restricted setup...
Date: 15 Nov 92 16:03:00 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov15.061922.15914@news.columbia.edu>, jel8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jason E Levine) writes...
>I remember seeing something about this posted a while back, but...
> 
>I was wondering what "restricted setup" features Windows has.  In other
>words, can I (and if so, how) set up Windows so that things like the Desktop
>settings in the Control Panel cannot be modified?  Or so that certain drives
>do not show up in File Manager?  Or any other restriction so that network
>maintenance does not become a chore and a half?  Thanks in advance for any
>tips and tricks.
> 
    Norton Desktop has security features that hide drives and restrict user
    access in other ways.  I would protect Desktop settings by simply
    taking that executable off the hard disk and putting it on a floppy so
    that only the holder of the floppy can make those changes.

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daniel david mittleman     -     danny@arizona.edu     -     (602) 621-2932
From: 92marsh@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted: Diamond SpeedStar 24x
Date: 18 Nov 92 04:01:44 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

         Hello,
           I have not the Speedstar 24x, but the Stealth 1 meg
         hi-color card.  This card is suppossedly Diamond's top card,
         but I hope they do better.  I am unable to get the card to
         perform except as the 512kb version.  They have replaced my
         card and video drivers twice.  Their tech support is NOT. 
         Bugs appear to exist in almost every video driver they have
         for their card (except the 640x480x16 mode: big deal).
           One final point that one should keep in mind before
         purchasing any card from Diamond: they don't work with most
         monitors.  They come with a SMODE program which will
         configure the card to some specific monitors: NEC 2, 3, 4,
         and 5 series, Crystal Scan, and a couple others.  Samsung is
         NOT supported and there are some monitors which won't even
         work in simple VGA mode.  This surprises me since the
         Samsung 3 is currently one of the most popular monitors. 
         There is a custom setting, but it hangs the computer.  So
         unless you either own a supported monitor, or one whose
         synch and frequency settings match a supported monitor
         EXACTLY, you are taking a chance.
           My friend has the 24x with a NEC 3 series without a
         problem, but is much less than impressed.  His SMODE program
         is identical to mine.  No improvements.  No 800 tech support
         number.  
           In retrospect, I'd suggest either an Ultra or an Orchid. 
         Try to get something with the Sierra chip in it.

         Charles
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: prangba@halcyon.com (Bruce Prang)
Subject: Re: telling windows about a network
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:18:59 GMT

u5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:

>I'm currently networking a number of machines which are already running
>Windows.  Is there any way to get Windows to recognise the (Novell) network
>without deleting it completely and then reinstalling with SETUP/N?

>Thanks,

>Peter Summers

As long as you don't want to run Windows "across" the net all you have
to do is run Windows Setup (main group). In the network section it lists
several Netware versions, pick the one that fits. This will get Windows
to recognize your network. I don't run Novell so I don't know what you
will have to do to your apps to make them work. Shouldn't be to much
though.

The SETUP/N allows you to have all (most) of your Windows files on the 
server and run Windows from the server instead of from the workstation. 
This saves a lot of disk space but increases the load on your network. 
If you want to run Windows from the server you might want to check out
WinLogin from MS. It keeps a database of win.ini files on the server for
each user. So that each time they log on (from any workstation) they
will get their colors, groups, etc. If some of their groups are for apps
that are on a workstation, those apps won't be available obviously. But
server apps will be.

Bruce

a new prod
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: claebaur@shell.portal.com (Tony S Annese)
Subject: Re: Can't get Win 3.1 into Enhanced mode.
Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:10:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.230734.45018@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> god@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>I've just switched over to a 386-20DX MB from a 286 board.  The MB has
>two meg of memory, and I have a bocaram AT board with another two meg
>configured as extenede memory, yet Windows 3.1 is not running in 386
>enhanced mode.  Is there something I need to do to manually
>reconfigure Windows?  What's the deal here?

Force Windows to start in the 386 Enhanced mode by calling windows up with the /3 switch:

win /3


That should start you up in the 386 Enhanced mode.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: mtrottie@emr1.emr.ca (Marc Trottier)
Subject: Widows File Manager & Network Drives
Organization: MPS, Energy, Mines & Resources, Canada
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:57:39 GMT

From: mtrottie@emr1.emr.ca (Marc Trottier)
Subject: Windows File Manager & Network drives
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:27:22 GMT

Does anyone know how to hide network drives in Windows File manager. Exactly 
what I'm trying to do is to setup Windows File Manager in a way that when 
the user run his file manager, only his home directory on the network and 
the local drives appears.

Does anyone has an idea?

Thanks in advance!
 
Marc Trottier
mtrottie@emr1.emr.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: Mennecke@nw42.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de (Juergen Mennecke)
Subject: Win31 and Adaptec SCSI host - nothing but trouble...
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:18:50 GMT
Organization: Fakultaet fuer Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Uni Bielefeld, Germany
Keywords: SCSI, Bus Master DMA

Hello!

I'm trying to set up Windows 3.1 on a '486-machine, 16 Meg, with an Adaptec 
1542b SCSI host adapter and a Conner SCSI disk.

At first, Windows refused to start in 386 enhanced mode at all (standard 
mode works). After including the following in the [386enh]-section of
SYSTEM.INI, and configuring Windows to use no swap file, it finally does 
start:

32BitDiskAccess=false
;this is where the Adaptec's Bios is:
EMMExclude=C000-DFFF
SystemRomBreakPoint=False
VirtualHDIrq=off

Still, I'm not happy with what Windows does. If I specify any swapfile, 
permanent or not, it won't boot. When I open a DOS box, Windows *exits* 
silently (leaving me with a quick way to exit Windows without using a 
utility, but sans Dos-Box :-|).

Any clues?

Regards,
J. Mennecke

mennecke@nw42.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: johnh@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (John Haddy)
Subject: Filespecs for Notepad
Organization: Macquarie University, Sydney
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:12:23 GMT

If notepad is called by some other portion of windows, the filespec displayed
when one goes to OPEN a file reflects the appropriate extensions (e.g. *.TXT or
*.CFG etc.)

How can I call Notepad and set this myself? For example, if I execute Notepad
from my cross-assemblers group I want a default of *.asm, rather than having to
either wade through an ALL FILES (*.*) list or explicitly set *.ASM after
starting Notepad.

JohnH

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