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From: moore@iastate.edu (Brian J Moore)
Subject: Re: Win 3.1 with 16Mb of RAM - HELP!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:50:29 GMT

In <720956146snx@hektar.welly.gen.nz> robert@hektar.welly.gen.nz (Robert Ruthven) writes:

> > Is there a way of writing temp files to a RAM drive?

>Yes!  But don't!  There is *no* advantage in putting your temporary files in
>a RAM drive (in fact Microsoft recommend against it), as you are using
>memory to give swap space.  Also, the amount of space on a RAM drive is
>more limited than your average hard drive... 8-)
>It would be more efficient (and faster, probably) to leave your swap
>files on your hard drive and keep your memory for memory.

I think the original poster was referring to temporary files not virtual
memory, in which case, it is a good idea to use a RAM disk.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: sas52992@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjay Ashok Sheth)
Subject: Can't increase VM size beyond 9.5 MB
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:02:15 GMT

I have been trying for weeks to see if I can increase my swapfile to a bigger
size. However, Windows never lets me go beyond 9.5 MB even though according to
PC Tools, I have a contigous non-fragmented space of at least 18 MB. Is there
some limit on swapfile size set by how much memory is in the computer? 
(BTW, I have a 486-33 with 8 MB of RAM). 

Please contact me by E-mail since I don't get around to reading this news-
group too often and I will summarize for the group later.

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From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: I did a silly thing...Made a little boo boo..
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:04:59 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

>I tried to setup windows for a different video card, Hee hee, I made a boo 
>boo. The driver I chose doesn't work and now I can't get windows to work at
>all.

Well at least you didn't get an UAE... :)

>Can anyone tell me which parameters specify the video driver in the *.ini 
>files ? I wish to return to using the standard vga driver but I refuse to 
>reinstall windows (which is what setup seems to insist that I do). There
>must be a parameter that has changed that I can edit back using a text editor.

Basically, if you run the setup from DOS, it shouldn't insist on a new
installation. It simply should put you to the system configuration
screen where you can choose whatever components you wish, and when
you select one, setup installs it and quits. Basically.

Look at system.ini, in the [boot] section. The essential lines are
286grabber=vgacolor.2gr
386grabber=vgacolor.3gr
diplay.drv=vgacolor.drv
(I suppose they were vgacolors with std VGA...)

In addition to these, the fonts may be different for your current
inoperable setup. But these entries should enable you to boot in std
VGA. (Of course you must expand the appropriate files from windoze disks
to the system directory first.)

The font entries were also in the [boot], and looked like this:
oemfonts.fon=vgaoem.fon
fixedfon.fon=vgafix.fon
fonts.fon=vgasys.fon
(I suppose, again, that they were vga*.fon with std VGA - at least they
were 8514*.fon with a 8514 setup...)

Hope this helps!

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From: rda491s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Agus Budy Wuysang)
Subject: Re: Canon BJ-300
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:27:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.004614.1614@msus1.msus.edu> cs272017@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu (cs272 user 017) writes:
>Could anyone tell me where to locate a Windows 3.0 driver for a Canon
>Bubblejet BJ-300 printer?  FTP sites/filenames, etc are welcome.  Please
>don't ask for specifics of this printer, though, since I'm merely
>posting this for someone else...
>
>Thanks.
>
>
You can use the one that comes with Windows 3.1 (unidrv.dll I think).
Use Control Panel to install.

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From: deb@spectra (David Barrett)
Subject: Re: using multiple comm ports in 3.1
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:00:46 GMT

Ralph,

You set the modem for IRQ5 on Com2 but what about the I/O card in the mainframe.You may have a fight between the modem and the rest of the system on who's on 
com2.  Sometimes there is a disable for the I/O card to stop hogging the show.
I wouldn't trust windows to run two windows with so many ported devices at one
time.  Microsoft is not THAT good, but who knows may be a good traffic cop will
finally be configured for you.  Let us know who wins.

dB
From: kkuisman@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Kalle E Kuismanen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: xmsmmgr.exe hangs in t3200
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:56:01 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki


	Hope this works, it's my first time.

I have been trying to install windows 3.1 to my toshiba t3200, but the 
setup hangs when it get's to the point where it says loading the xms memory 
manager. I have 4 mb of memory and I tried configuring it to xms and ems
but nothing worked. So if somebody could give a hint your help would be
mostly welcome.

	Kalle Kuismanen
From: swartzjh@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: TSENG Video Card
Date: 11 Nov 1992 15:25:16 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: swartzjh@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu

I just bought a new Tseng ET4000 Hi Color card. I looked on ftp.cica.indiana.
edu and there are about 6 or 7 different Tseng driver packages up there.
Does anyone know which one is the best for this card.  I would like to 
play with the 32k colors, but I am really just looking for a fast 
800x600 256 color driver.  Thanks for your help.


			Jeff Swartz
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.windows.misc
From: david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland)
Subject: Info on MICROWARE ACCELERATOR
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:50:21 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.
Keywords: ms-windows, speed

I recently received an order form for a card called Microware
Accelerator which boasts about making windows up to 25 times faster.

The following is a graph which they include as comparisons for a
computer with the card and one without:

Bit Block Alignment       | Screen to Screen
(milliseconds)            | (milliseconds)
--------------------------+----------------------------
286/12 Mhz                | 286/12 Mhz
standard     614          | standard     11.82
accelerator   19          | accelerator   0.63
                          |
386/33 Mhz                | 386/33 Mhz
standard     477          | standard      9.31
accelerator   18          | accelerator   0.51
                          |
486/33 Mhz                | 486/33 Mhz
standard     347          | standard      6.37
accelerator   13          | acceleator    0.37

(Tests performed on Super-VGA - 1 meg RAM, non-interlaced VESA
compliant)

There is no need for reconfiguring windows.  Just plug the card in.

Has anyone else heard about this card or give comments on it.  Any
info apart from the pre-sales dribble would be appreciated.

thanx.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: mccauleyba@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley)
Subject: Re: Windows Calendar Acc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:08:16 GMT
Organization: University of Birmingham

In article <1du2tlINN4qj@uwm.edu>, retzer@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Joe J Retzer) writes:
> 
> I would like to have the calendar app. from the accessories group open
> automatically when I enter windows. This can be done by just dragging
> the icon into the startup group. The problem, however, is I'd like
> 
>      (1) a particular calendar file opened each time, as opposed to 
> 	 defaulting to the empty "untitled" one.
Go in to Properties... on the calendar icon and put xxx.cal after calendar.exe
Actually you can leave out calendar.exe and let the default file associations
open calendar for you.
> 
>      (2) the "monthly" view enabled, again as opposed to the default
> 	 "daily" one.
Sorry can't help you there unless your prepared to get into writting programs
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From: todd.strauch@med.umich.edu (Todd R Strauch)
Subject: Hiding Drives in File Manager . . .
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 07:43:18 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Medical School
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup

It's my understanding that in Windows 3.1, it is possible to mask out drive
designators so that they do not appear in File Manager.  I have, however,
been unable to find anything in the Windows manual telling me how to do
this.  Have I been on a wild goose chase?

Todd R. Strauch
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan
todd.r.strauch@med.umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: troyb@stat.ufl.edu (Troy Bleeker)
Subject: Applications in Background
Organization: University of Fl, Department of Statistics
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Date: 13 Nov 92 09:29:22

I'm using MS-Windows 3.1 and would like for my applications to run when
they're in the background or in icon form. Is there anyway to do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

troyb@stat.ufl.edu

Troy
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Canon BJ-300
From: cs272017@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu (cs272 user 017)
Date: 7 Nov 92 00:46:14 -0600
Organization: St. Cloud State Univ., MN
Summary: Looking for Canon BJ-300 driver for Win 3.0 

Could anyone tell me where to locate a Windows 3.0 driver for a Canon
Bubblejet BJ-300 printer?  FTP sites/filenames, etc are welcome.  Please
don't ask for specifics of this printer, though, since I'm merely
posting this for someone else...

Thanks.
From: green@rwja.umdnj.edu (Cliff Green)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: last ctrl-d
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:32:07 GMT
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ

cca12@keele.ac.uk (Geoff Smethurst) writes:

>Is there no way of getting rid of the last ctrl-d in a
>windows printed file. I know the fix for the first one but
>the last one is causing problems.
>Thanks
>Geoff Smethurst

Doesn't CtrlD=0 get rid of that?  In win.ini-- 
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From: robertc@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Robert D Crane)
Subject: Enhanced VGA driver on Network
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:12:21 GMT


 I have an interesting windows problem that neither Microsoft,
my Novell reseller, or the Display card suppliers can solve.
Any ideas, please reply I'm getting desperate. Here is the
scene.

  Windows 3.1 running in 386 enhanced mode on a Novell
  3.11 network. IPX = version 3.10, NETX = 3.26. I am
  trying to install the high resolution windows 
  graphics drivers for a trident tvga 8900c 1MB full
  height video card. The machine is an AST 486/33
  bravo with 4 MB and a 10 base T network adaptor card
  NE2000 type port - 340h int = 5. Basically when I
  use the card with the standard mode VGA driver that
  comes with windows no probs, however if I try to
  use the high resolution drivers I get the following.
  -
  A device file specified in system.ini is corrupted
  it you may need to run windows in 386 enhanced mode.
  You may need to run the setup program again.
  f:\user\bill\vddtvga.386
  Press any key to continue ...

  Invalid VxD dynamic link call to device number 000a, service
  0007. Your windows config is invalid. Run windows setup
  program again to correct the problem.
  -
  When I install the drivers on the local copy of windows, ie
  windows on c: it works fine. I have tried a number of different 
  resolutions and same problems ! I have extracted the trident 
  video drivers and set up windows correctly according to 
  microsoft.

  All that I can determine is that there is some clash between
  windows on the network and this particluar video driver.
  If you have any suggestions please let me know because I am
  all out.


      Thanks
        Robert

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland)
Subject: MicroWare Accelerator - Info Please
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:54:13 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

I recently received an order form for a card called Microware
Accelerator which boasts about making windows up to 25 times faster.

The following is a graph which they include as comparisons for a
computer with the card and one without:

Bit Block Alignment       | Screen to Screen
(milliseconds)            | (milliseconds)
--------------------------+----------------------------
286/12 Mhz                | 286/12 Mhz
standard     614          | standard     11.82
accelerator   19          | accelerator   0.63
                          |
386/33 Mhz                | 386/33 Mhz
standard     477          | standard      9.31
accelerator   18          | accelerator   0.51
                          |
486/33 Mhz                | 486/33 Mhz
standard     347          | standard      6.37
accelerator   13          | acceleator    0.37

(Tests performed on Super-VGA - 1 meg RAM, non-interlaced VESA
compliant)

There is no need for reconfiguring windows.  Just plug the card in.

Has anyone else heard about this card or want to give comments on it.
Any info apart from the pre-sales dribble would be appreciated.

thanx.
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From: todd@valinor.mythical.com (Todd Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows with 2M RAM 
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:19:53 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: (What? Organized??) - Mythical Computer Systems

> I got a friend with a 386-SX/33MHz and 2M of RAM, 80M HD. 
> Is it possible to run Windows with this configuration? 
> I understand it is going to be pretty slow, but she is just going to use 
> simple word processing programs like Word. Do you think she will be 
> able to run it? 
> 
> 


yes, this will work fine, I have pretty much the same configuration
it is a bit slow, however I have no problems at all multi-tasking in most
cases, where you will run into the biggest problems is running non-win
(dos) apps during multi-task..



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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: s290@brems.ii.uib.no ( Per Ivar Roervik)
Subject:  Looking for new RTVGA drivers
Organization: DevNull A/S
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 12:58:14 GMT

 The ones I have are buggy. Where can I find new.

 s290@ii.uib.no
From: iisakkil@snakemail.hut.fi (Mika Iisakkila)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Diamond SS24X -- anyone else fed up?
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:47:07 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup) writes:

>I ripped out everything but the bare minimum from the config files. No diff.

Yeah, and when I press Alt-Tab in a full screen DOS session, the
machine locks up with a blank screen. Even ctrl-alt-del won't do
anything. Some programs do the exactly same thing even outside windows
when I try to exit. Anyone with the same problems?

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From: beelewm@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: ***> MS.WINDOWS 3.1 .... Followup
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:10:34 GMT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

This is to thank everyone for the help that was sent.  I found a lot
of good advice and even a little pity.  This is also to say:
                
             IT WORKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't ask me why.  I just deleted the windows directory and anything
that made any referance to it in the autoexec.bat and config.sys.  I
then re booted the computer and re-installed it.  and for some reason,
it worked.  Go figure...

Well, thanks again guys

Catch 22 ------------------- Marc -------------- Beelewm@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: davide@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (Davide 'aie' Melan)
Subject: looking for driver
Organization: D.E.I. Universita' di Padova, Italia
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:16:19 GMT


I'm searching for a Win3.1 YAMAHA QX-3 Sequencer MIDI driver ...

Does anybody know where I can get it?

Thanx.



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From: PVossler@cen.ex.ac.uk (P.J.Vossler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: I did a silly thing...Made a little boo boo..
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:23:39 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Computer Unit. - University of Exeter. UK


I tried to setup windows for a different video card, Hee hee, I made a boo 
boo. The driver I chose doesn't work and now I can't get windows to work at
all.

Can anyone tell me which parameters specify the video driver in the *.ini 
files ? I wish to return to using the standard vga driver but I refuse to 
reinstall windows (which is what setup seems to insist that I do). There
must be a parameter that has changed that I can edit back using a text editor.

Any help much appreciated...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: bgeer@javelin.sim.es.com (Bob Geer)
Subject: Need help w/ Win3.1 upgrade
Reply-To: bgeer@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:04:28 GMT

My Win3.0 installation works fine, but my Win3.1 upgrade randomly
halts w/ a white-on-blue "system halted parity errors" message
onscreen.  I have re-loaded my Win3.0 & it runs fine even when
stressed with something like 3 rows of icons worth of programs
started, incl. lots of graphics display programs.  I re-upgraded my
Win3.1 upgrade & get more parity error system halts.  Re-upgrading
with a friend's Win3.1 disks does the same thing.

I have low-level formatted my disk, have plenty of disk space, run all
the diagnostics I have -- DiskManager that came with my Seagate disk.
(I don't have a copy of CheckIt yet, unfortunately.)

Forgot to bring in the important manuals, but my config is something
like:

motherboard: 	DTK 386-20 "Fast20" w/ 1 meg on board
RAM board:	DTK 32-bit bus w/ 8 meg
disk cont:	DTC 7728(?) RLL w/ floppy cont.
disks:		2 277-r Seagate 62 meg.
video:		ATI VGA Wonder w/ 512k (I have 3.1 drivers)

Please help if you can...it's driving me crazy.  Bob
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: nordstro@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (billy nordstrom)
Subject: trident 8900c 1meg
Summary: trident for $70
Keywords: trident, windows, svga
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:24:15 GMT

is the trident 8900c svga 1meg card good for
windows?  and is $70 appropriate to pay for 
this card?  i just wanted to get 640x480x256
out of windows, and i was wondering if this
is a good deal/performance...  oh, and yes,
i want it to be good enough of an upgrade from
my paradise 256k so that when i get a better
monitor, i won't have to upgrade again.
and also, is this trident compatible with
a non-multisync monitor?  i just have an
analog packard bell monitor.  

thanx in advance!

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From: mcsbc2gw@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: WINDOWS 3.0 MCGA screen driver program
Date: 6 Nov 92 11:16:29 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Helllllllllllllllpppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure if this is the right news-group but here goes.....

I have Windows v3.0 and I have a SEVERE problem!
				 ------

The set-up program runs just fine, but my screen display exhibits unusual
multi-colour tendicies and when I move the mouse the screen goes haywire!

I think its' due to the fact that my VGA card is only capable of supporting
MCGA. Can anyone provide me with the appropriate driver? 

I would love to get into C++ programming but since the package I have only runs
under Windows, I can't get it to run.

If you have any advice please e-mail me direct or on the NEWS net.

thanx
The C man who wishes to become a C++ man in a Windows OS.


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