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From: george@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (George Nassas)
Subject: Roland SCC1 board
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 03:31:02 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to get Windows 3.1 to recognize my Roland SCC1 board which
is MPU401 compatible. I've gone through all the usual things (checking
the interrupt, port, proper driver) and still Win says it isn't there.
Has anyone on the net travelled this road before?

- George Nassas
  Laurentian University
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: vri@dxcern.enet.dec.com (Jannes de Vries)
Subject: key accents in WinWord2.0 
Keywords: accents, winword 
Reply-To: vri@dxcern.cern.ch
Organization: CERN, Geneva.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:55:04 GMT

--
In WinWord2.0 running on Windows3.0 we had the key-accent feature of
typing accent+key e.g. 'e `e ^u which results in the one character code.
This feature disappeard with the introduction of Windows3.1 on our site 
Novell file server, and we are forced to use the ALT+keycode strokes again.
What part of the installation is responsible for retaining the accent
to the next keystroke, for a valid combination ?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: chand@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Hand)
Subject: Seeking OAK VGA driver for win 3.1
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 13:01:53 GMT

I have been told by MS Tech Support that the reason why I get
GP faults in VGA.DRV and KRNL386.EXE all the time is that my
video driver may be incompatible.  I'm using the standard VGA driver.

So can anyone tell me:

	(a) How come the VGA driver can mess up my system, while
	    thousands of others use it with no problems?  Is it the
	    VGA BIOS's fault?

	(b) Where can a get a *NEW* OAK VGA driver for *3.1*?
	    I know about the large zip file on cica.cica.indiana.edu
	    (something like 67_win.zip?), but it doesn't have a
	    standard VGA (640x480x16) driver in there.  I tried some
	    of the others but they don't work.

	(c) If all else fails, does anyone at least have a contact
	    address for OAK?  Are they still in business?  A European
	    address/phone would be preferable (ideally the UK).

Thanks a lot!

Chris   cph@leicp.ac.uk
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:10:54 EDT
From: Aengus Lawlor <RBYAML@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: HELP! 256 color for Windows 3.1???
 <1992Aug10.144652.22301@exu.ericsson.se> <167b60INNk4o@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
 <1992Aug12.143336.2041@msdhsv.ingr.com>

In article <1992Aug12.143336.2041@msdhsv.ingr.com>,
ahmad@norooz.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Ahmad Alavi) says:
>
[stuff deleted]
>I do not agree.  I have a 1MB card (Trident) and still have the same problem.
>I can use Trident W3.0 disk and install 800X600 256 color driver.  But
>if I use any 256 color from windows 3.1 setup I get the blank screen.
Windows 3.1 doesn't have generic 256 colour support for a Trident card.
I have used the Trident Win31 drivers from Trident for 256 colours on a 1MB
card.

Get them by FTP from ftp.cica.indiana.edu, /pub/pc/win3/drivers/video
trdwin31.zip.

Or, for the very latest stuff, dial their BBS at (415) 691-1016.
(600K, or so.....)

(the 800x600x16 driver seems to be the same as their 3.0 driver, but I
think the 256 colour drivers have been updated).
>
>-----------------------------
>Ahmad Alavi
>Intergraph Corporation
>ahmad@norooz.b17a.ingr.com

Aengus
--
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RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET                   (who used to be ALAWLOR@DIT.IE)
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"Certainly, sir. Would that be Dry or Sparkling?"
From: jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (SYSOP)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: HELP! 256 color for Windows 3.1???
Date: 18 Aug 92 05:47:34 GMT
Organization: Prime Time Productions Aurora, Illinois

prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts) writes:

> In article <1992Aug14.083828.18273@jet.uk> cpg@jet.uk (Dr Chris P Gatcombe) w
> >In <1992Aug12.202345.7212@wam.umd.edu> qian@wam.umd.edu (Yong Qian) writes:
> >
> >>In article <1992Aug12.143336.2041@msdhsv.ingr.com> ahmad@norooz.b17a.ingr.c
> >>>
> >>>I do not agree. I have a 1MB card (Trident) and still have the same proble
> >>>I can use Trident W3.0 disk and install 800X600 256 color driver. But
> >>>if I use any 256 color from windows 3.1 setup I get the blank screen.
> >>>
> >>>-----------------------------
> >
> >>Yeh. I can only get 800x600 16 colors from my 1MB Trident 8900C. 256 colors
> >>and 1024x768 mode make the screen blank and hang.
> >
> >I have a 486 with the Trident 8900c (1Mb), and I have installed _ALL_
> >the trident drivers (and the standard windows vga drivers) at one time
> >or another while benchmarking my system, and I have _NEVER_ had any
> >problems :-). My monitor is an AOC 14" interlaced type. I currently
> >have installed a beta version of the trident 800x600x256 driver (I only
> >put it on two nights ago, so it is early days - but it seems fine).
> >I think that the 800x600x256 driver is the best compromise for my
> >system, as 1024x768x256 is too small to use for any length of time,
> >especially on my monitor. (I like 256 colour bitmaps for windows
> >wallpaper!)
> >
> 
> I have that card on machines both at home and at work, one running
> 640x480x256, the other 800x600x256, both with the beta WIN3.1 drivers
> downloaded from Trident's bbs. Both are working mostly fine, although I
> do get an annoying little bug where if I minimize PageMaker and then
> maximize it, it comes up in wierd colors. Otherwise, no probs. These are
> 386s, by the way.

For those of you who might need the BBS number it is 1-415-691-1016
log-on and download!!
hope it helps!
jim

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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Is Tseng Lab ET4000 an Windows accelerator chip ?
Date: 20 Aug 92 02:46:49 GMT
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

csyew@ecst.csuchico.edu (YewSim Cheah) writes:
>I have bought a FastData PowerWin VGA card from FastMicro Direct 
>Express.  The card features an ET4000 chip and a RAMDAC HIColor 
>chip.  FastMicro (Phoenix, AZ) claims ET4000 is an accelerator 
>chip and will run Windows 6 times faster. 

If that's what they told you, they lied.  The ET4000 is probably the
most common standard SuperVGA chip around today, but it is in no way
an accelerator card.  The card itself may be faster than a generic VGA
card because of its design, but that's it.  Unless there's some other
chips on there doing some more acceleration, it's not an accelerator
board. 

You can always try to dig up some ET4000 drivers and see if they're
any faster.
-- 
Every day of my life forces me to add to the number of people who can kiss
my butt.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh)
Subject: Re: Trident TVGA Windows 3.1 driver???
Reply-To: hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh)
Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 15:42:17 GMT

I also need a WIN3.1 driver for Trident 640X480X256.  I do not have ftp, so
sending me an address won't work.  Anyone?

Thanks.
From: chuckb@milton.u.washington.edu (Chuck Bass)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Windows 3.1 crashes on old 386 with non IDE controller.
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:10:41 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

We recently brought our machine to maintainence because int was
crashing intermitantly in Win. 3.1.  This is an old 386 with
1989 AMI BIOS.  (I don't recall what motherboard).  It has been
in for a week now after withstanding swapped memory, BIOS,
motherboard and now they say that a non-IDE drive is the
culprit.  

I'm a bit skeptical.  It sounds as if they are replacing
hardware untill it works.

Has anyone heard of these problems and Win 3.1?  Better yet any
clue on what might really be wrong?.

Anyway thanks for listening to my whining....

Chuck Bass
Cooperative for Forest-Systems Engineering
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: ..SMARTDRV vs Built-in Cache, built-in is faster!....
From: eputnam@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 23:19:40 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <0095F799.22B17580@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
> 
>     Hi Folks:
> 	Finally I got 4M ram on my DTC SCSI card and I ran the
> 	smartdrv vs. buitl-in cache experiment again. And yes,
> 	built-in cache is faster than the smartdrv cache!
> 
> (a)	Here is one comparison. It took 29:00 sec to load the NDW
> 	along with lots of icons (win 3.1) when I tested with
> 	512K built-in + 1mb smartdrv cache (as I reported before).
> 
> (b)	With 4mb cache on the card it takes only 12:12 sec! (no smartdrv).
> 
> (c)	According to previous discussions in this thread, built-in
> 	+ smartdrv should be slower than the built-in cache alone. 
> 	This is precisely what I found, it took 22:00 sec to load 
> 	NDW and everything with the 4mb built-in + 2mb smartdrv!
> 
> 	So now, there is no contradiction between theory and experiment!
> 
> 	These tests were done on a stacked drive, so results may be
> 	different on an unstacked drive.
> 
> 	- Anis, Dept. of EECE, Marquette University.

My only questions are:  1)How much RAM do you have and 2)Is your machine
ISA/EISA/MC?  The reason I ask about memory is that if you are converting
a large portion of your RAM to cache then you could see a lower performance
due to swapping to the drive during the startup.  If your machine is an ISA,
then a memory cache should be faster than a hardware cache just because it
doesn't have to transmit through the bus (major slowdown on ISA).

Personally, I have a Promise Tech controller card with 8 Meg of RAM controlling
a Maxtor 7120A IDE drive and a 1 Meg PC-Cache drive cache.  I timed how long
it takes to start Windows 3.1 and found no difference between no software
cache and software cache.  I do however notice the difference when I am
working with moderate sized files and find the software cache very nice to
have.  Of course, this doesn't apply to OS/2 where more free memory is better
than more cache, but that is another story.

Almost forgot...  My machine is an ISA 386DX-25 with 8 Meg of RAM.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: liats3@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (LIANG TIAN)
Subject: Re: HELP! 256 color for Windows 3.1???
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:19:49 GMT

ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach) writes:


>Hi all,

>I won't waste a lot of net space with this request, but I
>need some serious help. I have a Packard Bell 386/25mhz
>system and I am running Windows 3.1. I want to get 256
>color in Windows so I can run certain applications that
>require 256 colors to work properly.

>I tried simply switching the driver via Windows Setup (both
>in Windows and in a DOS shell), but when I pick a driver that
>features 256 color, Windows won't open. I get the opening
>"welcome" screen and then a blank, black screen that hangs.

>I know it's not my monitor, and there's a whole section on
>the "VGA Video Graphics Controller" in the system's documentation
>that shows it will support 256 color for Windows 3.1. However,
>it doesn't work.

>The only thing I can think of is that I need to redefine things
>so I have 512K instead of 256K for video memory. But I don't
>know how to do this! Is this even the right thing to do?

>Any help (either via email or here) anyone could give me will
>be greatly appreciated.

>Ken

  First of all, there are a few things you must have in order to run
at a specific graphics mode.
  First of all, you must have enough video memory. This is memory that
exist on the video card, not the ordinary RAM on the motherboard. For
example,
	mode				video memory needed
	1024x768x256			1MB
	1024x768x16			512kB
	800x600x256			512kB
etc, etc, I can't remember all of them and the refs are too far away.
  So check up on your documentation for your graphics card. If you have
256k of video memory, I think you can only run 640x400x256 if that. You
have to check yourselve. You cannot redefine graphics memory in the same
way as extended/expanded memory.
  Secondly, you will need a driver that does 256color for your particular
card. There are a lot drivers listed in the setup. But you need one that
knows your system. If your card is not in the default list, there is a
last choice at the bottom, 'Other (require OEM disk)' or something like
that. It will then ask you for the path of the drivers. The graphics card
will need to come with some disks with the drivers and setup information
in it. I am sure most graphics cards will come with the needed drivers.
  I hope this will help you solve your problems. 
/***********************************************************/
				Liang Tian Soon
				liats3@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au
/***********************************************************/
From: dannyj@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Danny K. Jain)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Terminal type in TERM of windows 3.1
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:57:54 GMT
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas

mhs@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (mostafa.hashem.sherif) writes:

>I have provisioned my terminal type to be VT100 in the Terminal
>program for windows 3.1.
>Tried to access a Unix machine and use vi to process a file.
>The file was garbled.
>It seems that the Term type on both sides do not match up.
>Where should I start looking to solve the problem?
>Any hints would be appreciated.

>M. H. Sherif
>AT&T Bell Laboratories 
>+1 908 949-0439

The first step is to find out what the unix machine thinks the term is.
In Unix c-shell, type 

	echo $term

to get the terminal type.  If it is not vt100, set it to vt100 using

	set term=vt100

Then try to vi the file, and it should be better.

-Danny Jain
From: cadizht@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Horacio Cadiz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: key accents in WinWord2.0
Keywords: accents, winword
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:03:04 GMT
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA


vri@dxcern.cern.ch writes:

>In WinWord2.0 running on Windows3.0 we had the key-accent feature of
>typing accent+key e.g. 'e `e ^u which results in the one character code.
>This feature disappeard with the introduction of Windows3.1 on our site 
>[ stuff deleted ]

  These accent marks are available on different keyboards and languages.
', `, and ^ are available on the Spanish keyboard.  I now forget what
keys they are mapped to but try those keys after P and L.  
  Defining the keyboard and the language is done under the "International"
setting in the setup.  The drivers are found in Disk#2 of Win 3.1

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From: yc23@uk.co.gec-mrc (Trevor Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Windows 3.1 driver for Epson GQ5000 Laser
Date: 18 Aug 92 07:25:14 GMT
Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK

Does anyone have a Windows 3.1 driver for the Epson GQ5000 (different
from the 3500 and more modern Epson lasers) in its native mode (ie not
HP LJ or whatever).

Thanks

-- 
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From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: HELP! 256 color for Windows 3.1???
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:07:49 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Organization: University of Helsinki


I have a Trident 8900C with 3.01 BIOS & 1 meg RAM. I use the beta
drivers from CICA with 3.1, ALL of them (I use a PD program called
SWITCHER, which makes switching between the modes easy, and I like
1Kx768x256 for image processing, while 800x600x16 is nice with word
processing, etc...). I've had absolutely no problems. The Windows'
800x600 driver works nicely also. I have mouse on DOS windows, but
regrettably (*not* :) EGA or VGA graphics (due to the beta drivers),
only CGA. Apart from the slight sluggishness the 8900 and the drivers
perform well with my setup.

-- 
               Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
       University of Helsinki, Dept. of Paranormal Investigations
           "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: liats3@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (LIANG TIAN)
Subject: Re: Need Help! UAE problem!
Keywords: UAE    
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:04:17 GMT

w0y5750@tamsun.tamu.edu (Wen-Chung Yau) writes:

>	I encountered the unrecoveralbe application error when I were
> using Word for Win in the Window3.0 environment in my 486 machine.
>	I opened too many files and there's no enough memory, then the
> screen crash down. I rebooted several times but the UAE problem was still
> there. I tried to use warm reboot and it's of no use, too. Finally when I 
> tried many times, the Windows3.0 generate system error and jump to DOS
> prompt. I have the following questions:

>	1. How could I solve the situation after I encountered the UAE
>	   problem?

>	2. It should swap the files in the memory to the HD automatically
>	   when there's no enough memory in the Virtue Memory architecture.
>	   Why it asked me to close some files ?    

>	3. Why the UAE problem will cause a system error finally?

>	4. How Windows 3.0 deal with the application softwares? What's the
>	   processes when Windows 3.0 find UAE problem?

  First of all, booting the computer again, either cold or warm, will
not solve the UAE. If you open many files everytime, you will get the
same error again and again. I think this could be because you don't have
enough file handles. In your config.sys, use files=60 or something like
that. I think 3.0 uses files=30, 3.1 defaults to files=60. This might 
answer the first question.
  On the second question, this is one that got me as well as a lot of
people. The amount of memory you have really is just one aspect of 3.0
and indeed Windows VM system. Windows will reserve 2 64k stack space as
descriptors to the virtual memory. Any window or process you have will
have some descriptor in these stacks. And these get used up pretty fast!
So the limiting factor is not the amount of memory(real or virtual) but
the size of these stacks. It is just poor VM management. It will not
matter if you add another 4MB of real memory, the problem is with the 2
64k stacks. You can see how much are used by looking in program manager,
Help menu and About... It will show a number showing the percentage of
system resources free. This means the 64k stacks. If they are below ~20%,
Windows will not allow you to create any new windows/process and will
advise you to close some windows.  Windows 3.1 doesn't really solve the
problem. It just uses stacks that are twice as large(128k) and this will
delay this error from happening unless you have heaps of windows.
  I can't understand your 3rd and 4th questions. I hope that you
understand what is wrong and how you can fix it. The best course of action
is to get 3.1. It is worth it.

/***********************************************************/
				Liang Tian Soon
				liats3@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au
/***********************************************************/

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: s1110238@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Lee Hollingworth)
Subject: Re: "Windows Aware" only Fullscreen?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:15:16 GMT

I have just re-installed Windows 3.0 onto my hard disk, and wished to
re-install my MS-DOS based software which is written in a "windows
aware" manner, (ie runs in a window), for example Kermit 3.11, and
Archive (windows based but uses pkzip etc).

However I have found that windows will now no longer allow me to run
these programs in anything but fullscreen.  When I installed windows
before, these programs worked without any problems.

Obviously I have something set differently now than I did on previous
installations, but I cannot work out what.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

If it makes any difference, my system is configured as follows:
	IAC 80386DX
	4Mb RAM
	200Mb IDE Hard drive
	MS-DOS 5.0
	MS-Windows 3.0

Installation was done using setup with default options.

Lee Hollingworth
s1110238@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: davidw@ida.dsir.govt.nz (David White)
Subject: Re: Seeking OAK VGA driver for win 3.1
Keywords: Oak, VGA, VGA.DRV
Organization: DSIR/IDA Auckland, New Zealand
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:54:15 GMT

In jonas.fogelberg@udac.uu.se (Jonas Fogelberg) writes:

>In article damien@erich.triumf.ca (DAMIEN GALLOP) writes:

>>In <1992Aug15.130153.10199@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> CH asks, Anyone know where to
>>find an updated Oak 640x480 driver for Windows? I would also like to know.
>>There is no such animal in the usual places. Thanks. Damien  

>Try ftp.cica.indiana.edu. The file is called 67_win31.zip. Don't
>remember the directory.

Try ftp/pub/pc/win3/drivers/video at ftp.cica.indiana.edu [129.79.20.84]

david

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: shadow ram (2nd related question)
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:11:45 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <1992Aug15.111100.458@vms.huji.ac.il>, tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
> i have a 486/33 with 4 megs and shadow ram.  Now that i installed
> windows 3.1 and use fastdisk, do i need to use 256k on the shadow
> ram?  i read that windows only uses the dos fat now.  I have an
> ami bios.

	Another shadow ram question (hopefully killing two questions with one
answer):

	I have the same config above, would I speed things up if I added the
following line to my himem.sys to copy the info from the bios to faster ram:
himem.sys /shadow on   (or something similar)

Eric Dowdy

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