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From: sunjay@draco.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: VCPI/DPMI errors ?  Exception error #6 ?
Date: 9 Oct 92 22:14:12 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University RUCS-Newark

When I try to run a dos app (it's not one of the off-the-shelves) within
Windows, I get a DOS 16/M Error.   I tried changing the parameters for 
himem.sys and emm386.exe (I am using windows Himem.sys and EMM386.exe)
and would get different errors, such as VCPI & DPMI.

Can someone explain to me what these errors mean ?   Is there a fix available
for these errors ?

Another one,  what causes EMM386 exception error # 6.  Is it HW related or 
SW related.


I would appreciate if you folks can please help me with these probs.

Thanx in apprecition.

sunjay@draco.rutgers.edu
From: eric@praxis.co.uk (Eric Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Windows and IBM Monitor Problem
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:41:53 GMT
Distribution: eunet
Organization: Praxis, Bath, U.K.

I have been trying to use IBM 8515 colour monitor with windows.  My
problem is that whilst it will run windows in VGA on various computers
(including Dell, Elonex, NEC), it will not run in higher resolutions.

In 800 x 600 : Jittering display (On an NEC and a clone)
In 1024 x 768 : 4 copies of the desktop appear, in a row, overlayed (On a
Dell)

It does however work in 1024 x 768 on the clone (in mono!) and
incedentally will also run X Windows happily in colour on the clone.

I have no manual for the monitor :-(

Has anyone seen this sort of thing before and have any ideas.
I would also like to hear from anyone successfully using an IBM monitor
with supervga Windows.

A quick response would be appreciated (as I want to buy it)

Thanks

Eric

P.S. Elonex - trident, Clone - Tseng, NEC - Paradise, Dell - ?


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From: callaci@bcserv.wustl.edu (Callaci (Tom))
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Setup for TSR compatability: HELP
Date: 10 Oct 92 21:58:25 GMT
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: bcserv.wustl.edu
Summary: My TSR locks up windows when activated; can I exclude mem or something
Keywords: TSR, windows,setup

Hello,
    I have a TSR program from Fremont Communication's "Frecom" software which
monitors  a telephone call
for the prescence of a fax transmission tone.  When the
monitoring starts (after one answers the phone) a message window pops up in
the  cornner of the screen.  It shows the status of the call: voice, tones,
fax or whatever is is going on. It also gives options to manually end
the monitoring or to
start to receive a fax.  When I am in windows, the little message pops up and
monitors the call but my computer does not respond to any input of any kind
from the keyboard.  All of the keystrokes get stored somewhere untill the
end of the call and then get spit out, for example in the document which I was
e.diting before the call.
     So the problem is that, when in windows, I cannot terminate the monitoring
 in order to
continue with whatever I am doing on the computer.  This is a pain when someone
else gets a call and I am triing to work(, or play) as the computer is "locked 
up". Does anyone know a fix or
change in any of the windows startup system files that I can use/make?
Thank You.
                              Tom
callaci@bcserv.wustl.edu
From: mfprf@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Paul R. Falzer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Going from 4MB to 8MB RAM (another ?)
Summary: try it!
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:44:12 GMT
Organization: Educational Computing Network

Let me wade into this interesting discussion by responding to the question
about smartdrive parameters.  

I really think that the best configuration is what's best for you. 
Factors to consider are: is your work more memory intensive, disk
intensive, or a combination of both?  Do you work only in MS Windows, or
are you setting up smartdrive to work in DOS as well?  How much loose
memory do you have available, and how much do you want or need to run your
applications smoothly?

In any case, the best answer will be determined by your setting the
parameters (try the defaults to begin with) and changing them in a
systematic fashion until you've got what you think works best.  Do consult
the smartdrive monitor for some objective data.

  Paul R. Falzer
    Internet: mfprf@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
From: peter@citr.uq.oz.au (Peter Klavins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Old Eagle II VGA card 800x600x16 driver?
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:40:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: citr.peter.719206850
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland

My VGA card (circa 1989) displays the following on boot:

Eagle II VGA Bios Version 2.12
Copyright (C) Cirrus Logic Inc 1987-1988
Copyright (C) Award Software Inc 1984-1988 All Rights Reserved

Windows 3.1 rejects the card (I forget the message) if I try to use the
standard SVGA 800x600x16 driver, and simply goes back to the DOS prompt
after displaying a message.  (The card works fine with the standard VGA
driver.)

The card did come with Windows 2.0 (amongst others) drivers, so it
should theoretically be possible to drive it from Windows 3.1.  Does
anyone have any clue as to how I should proceed?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: MT Extra and Fences fonts
From: Frank Mulhern <FJM1@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:21:09 EDT
Organization: Penn State University

I recently read on this newsgroup about a bug in W4W involving the two
fonts--MT Extra and Fences.  I tried removing the fonts then adding them
back. I did not delete the fonts from the disk, but I can't find them to add
them back.  When I go into CONTROL PANEL | FONTS | ADD it says "no fonts
available." Yet in FILE MANAGER I can see many fonts listed.  What am I
missing. I get the same problem for all directories and subdirectories,
including the equation subdirectory which has the fonts in it.  Thanks for
any advice.

        Frank Mulhern   Department of Marketing
                        Penn State 814-865-0232    FJM1 @ PSUVM
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: mokler@desert.in-berlin.de (Claudius Mokler)
Subject: Re : 32 bit disk access
Organization: Private Site
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 22:33:22 GMT

Something about 32 Bit Disk Access     

The so-called 32 bit disk access is a method used by win31 to access
the permanen swapfile.
Normally (32 bit access disabled), win goes thru DOS to access it's
swapfile. This is because of necessarily switching from 386 protected
mode to 86 real mode and back quite time-comsuming.
If - and only then - your harddisk/controller is compatible with
the famous old wd1003 (any IDE drive is) win can access the drive by
it own means - neither using DOS nor BIOS. By this method, the
performance is increased 'dramatically' because of omitting the tedious
mode switching procedure. By the way, it is of course nonsense to speak of
'32 bit accesses', because the hardware does only 16 bit - even if it's a
local bus board or anything like this.

greetings, Claudius

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: cs922091@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRIS R STEELE)
Subject: Mouse problems
Originator: cs922091@c10.ariel.yorku.ca
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Distribution: york
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:21:43 GMT


Keywords:

Hi Stephan,
 
You must use the drivers that are provided by the manufacturer on the mouse that
you have purchased. What I did, was included the mouse command with modifiers
in my batch file, so that when I boot my system the mouse is already configured.
My mouse also has a selectable switch to switch from Ms-mode to Pc-mode, but
I must also re-run the mouse driver to initialize the new mouse configuration.
This is the safest route to following since most appliations under Dos and Windows, pick up on the mouse driver, and are not to finiky using the mouse
driver you already have installed over the one provided in most mouse using
software packages... Hope this helps..

-- Chris 


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: chrisvh@med.unc.edu (Chris G. vanHasselt)
Subject: Video problems!!
Originator: chrisvh@nakina
Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:10:59 GMT

The computer support group I work for has ran across three different
machines (including my one) that lock up in Windows at random times and
intervals.  

There is no hardware similarities between these machines...each is a clone
386, each from a different vendor, with different video cards.  

Which brings us to the crux of my question:  the problem was solved in all
three cases by replacing the video card with a new one.  

My question(s) are as follows: Has any one else ran into the same sort of
problem?  If you fixed it the same way we did, do you know if the problem
is (a) simply a good video card gone bad or (b) a poorly designed video
card that in some subtle way is not compatible with the VGA standard?  

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks
Chris van Hasselt
chrisvh@med.unc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: jhall@nmsu.edu (HALL)
Subject: Re: Using mouse in Win3.1 DOS window?
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Distribution: world,local
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:36:07 GMT

Stephen Bate (sbate@atl.ge.com) wrote:
: In article <29SEP199218440782@misvax.mis.arizona.edu> 
: dmittleman@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (Daniel Mittleman) writes:
: 
: > Warning:  this is at the level of rumor...
: > 
: > I have been told that the mouse only works when the dos window is full
: > screen.  This matches my personal observations of having my mouse work
: > for me when I make the dos window full screen but it does not work when
: > I have it be a small window.
: 

I use a logitech mouse with the windows mouse drivers. (mouse.sys)
It works great, I use borland C and turbo pascal in windowed windows box
everyday.  I have never had a bit of problem with the mouse.  It works
flawlessly for me.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: drevik@utkvx2.utk.edu (Drevik, Steve)
Subject: DOSPRMPT.PIF Problems
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 12:44:00 GMT

I just received a new Gateway 486 with Windows 3.1 already loaded.d
However, when I 2-clicked the MS-DOS, I got the following message:

   Incorrect System Version.  Run Windows Setup again.

I examined the icon's attributes and the DOSPRMPT.PIF file.  Nothing
notable there, all looks well.  I ran Setup and even re-intalled from 
disk again.  Still does it.  I'm probably missing something REALLY
simple here... or else some memory conflict.

If anyone has ideas or solutions, please e-mail or post.  Thanks

-steve


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: awilms@fam168.sni.de (Andreas Wilmsmeier)
Subject: ATI Graphics Ultra drivers again
Keywords: ATI drivers
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 11:07:46 GMT

I am still waiting for Windows 3.1 (1280*1024) drivers for my ATI Graphics 
Ultra video card. Does anybody know where I can get them (preferably on a
german ftp server).
From: S.Culverhouse@lut.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Using mouse in Win3.1 DOS window?
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:45:53 GMT
Reply-To: S.Culverhouse@lut.ac.uk (Simon C++)
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.

I followed the advice given about unpacking lmouse.drv and lmouse.com from
the windows disc, and found to my absolute amazement(sp?) that it worked.
The thing is though, I have one of those serial mouse things (LOGITECH) and
I also have bus mouse card int' machine.  The lmouse driver looks for the bus
mouse unless I tell it to look for the serial mouse.  So I get it working,
but I don't think the rodent is running in Mouse systems mode anymoure.  The
driver is running in MM mode.  What the hell is that ?

Any answers would be appreciated, 

Thanx.


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From: staffan@nynashamn.telesoft.se (Staffan K-E Ungsgard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: 32bit disk access?
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:34:46 GMT
Organization: Telesoft Norden AB

I do have a compatible controller. I got if from a friend when
he changed system, and he had it working in 32-bit mode. My old
controller/system (or whatever) did not allow 32-bit. As I use
the same windows installation now as before me changing system
there's not even a box to tick for 32-bit access. I read somewhere
that windows checks if 32-bit access can be achieved, and if not
it don't even give you the option to try.
Do I have to reinstall windows 3.1 to get the 32-bit option ?

-- Staffan Ungsgard
Telesoft Norden
Nynashamn, Sweden
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: paul@iti.gov.sg (Paul Phang (AIM))
Subject: Windows for Pen Computing
Keywords: pen computing;windows
Organization: Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, S'pore
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:17:51 GMT

Hi !

I would like to do some prototyping work using the Wacom digitising tablet
and Microsoft Windows 3.1.  However I have difficulty getting the drivers
that came along with the Wacom 510C tablet to work with Pen Windows.

Has anybody tried using Wacom 510C for Windows?  What drivers do I 
need to get hold of? How should the system.ini be configured? The local
Wacom distributor is not able to help.  Is there an email address for
Wacom in the US?

Presently, the driver that came along with the Wacom tablet is 
able to enable Windows to recognise the pen as a mouse.  However, I can't
get it to work correctly for handwriting recognition.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
                             Paul Kah Heng Phang
 Advanced User Interface Group, Computer and Communications Laboratory
 Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, Singapore
     Email: paul@iti.gov.sg   Phone: (65) 7720908 Fax: (65) 7773043
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Subject: Re: Using mouse in Win3.1 DOS window?
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 19:25:01 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <1992Oct11.124719.8060@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> dwj@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Daniel W. James) writes:
>
>I do want to have the mouse available in most of my DOS windows, however I
>often access our Database through Procomm (for DOS), and find the
>availability of the mouse to be unnacceptable.  I'm tired of having control
>characters embedded in my shell scripts just because I bumped the table too
>hard while I was keying in a large command.

Hmmm, this sounds like an ANSI mouse emulation.

THere's probably an option to turn it off in Procomm. I suggest you
explore the possibility.
-- 
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Datamark Intl Ltd | 
 Technical Writer | I don't need a disclaimer, I live in a sane society.
From: lobssuth@fig.citib.com (Lou Obssuth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: 32 bit access for scsi
Date: 14 Oct 92 15:38:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: fig.Bw4BFo.4v3
Organization: Citibank IBISM
Originator: lobssuth@swcdev


	I have a gateway 2000 486 33 with an adaptec 1542B controller
	Can I use windows 32-bit access or do I need a special driver??

	thanks in advance
	louis obssuth
From: collins@emperor.gatech.edu (Tom Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Going from 4MB to 8MB RAM
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:03:09 GMT
Organization: CERL-EE, Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Oct15.135927.1@vax1.umkc.edu> edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>In article <1992Oct14.025721.27199@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo) writes:
>> From article <1992Oct14.023509.26745@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, by zwh@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Zheng Weihong):
>>> For follwing three cases, can anyone tell me which one has
>>> better windows performance:
>>> 1) turn off  Swapper
>> 
>> The only effect this will have is to cause you to run out of memory if
>> real memory gets low, and will actually slow things down in that case.
>> 
>
>I would have to disagree with this answer. Actually if you can afford it memory
> [rest of text deleted]

In response to the original question (and several similar questions over
the past few weeks (months?), many people have posted worthwhile suggestions
and results from their own experimentation, including the one I've quoted
here.

BUT . . .

Please remember that other users' experiences may or may not apply to you.
There are many suggestions floating around for making Windows faster, and
a lot of them hamper its ability to run multiple applications, DOS applications,
and/or large applications.  I won't attempt to list them all, but they
include disabling swapping and not running in enhanced mode.

Realistically, if one is only running a word processor, never using OLE to
include spreadsheets and complex drawings, it may be quite reasonable to
speed things up by doing something as simple as running a low-resolution 
16-color video driver in preference to a high-resolution driver which
enables the user to see more of multiple applications.  But is this what
most of us want?  

So if you have a tip, try to understand what the downside is, and post 
that information as well.  
-- 
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Georgia Institute of Technology           (404) 894-2509
400 Tenth St. NW, CRB 384
Atlanta, GA  30332-0540
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Going from 4MB to 8MB RAM
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:59:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: vax1.1992Oct15.135927.1
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <1992Oct14.025721.27199@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo) writes:
> From article <1992Oct14.023509.26745@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, by zwh@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Zheng Weihong):
>> For follwing three cases, can anyone tell me which one has
>> better windows performance:
>> 1) turn off  Swapper
> 
> The only effect this will have is to cause you to run out of memory if
> real memory gets low, and will actually slow things down in that case.
> 

I would have to disagree with this answer. Actually if you can afford it memory
wise, it is generally better to turn the swap file off. Windows seems to run
faster overall with the absence of the swap. I have found this to be the case
on my 486. I have just installed 8mg (total now=8mg) nad windows is a dream.
The actions are crisp, WP for windows, previously slow runs very snappy, though
I need to get the upgrade. 
Overall, I would say turn off the swap file or at the least make it permanent.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: mhatz@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Hatz)
Subject: Moving BMPs and other files
Organization: Cyberian Air Force
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 16:07:53 GMT

Mike
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Using mouse in Win3.1 DOS window?
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:19:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: mksol.1992Oct12.171941.21833
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc

In <1992Oct11.192501.20231@datamark.co.nz> thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:

>In article <1992Oct11.124719.8060@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> dwj@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Daniel W. James) writes:
>>
>>I do want to have the mouse available in most of my DOS windows, however I
>>often access our Database through Procomm (for DOS), and find the
>>availability of the mouse to be unnacceptable.  I'm tired of having control
>>characters embedded in my shell scripts just because I bumped the table too
>>hard while I was keying in a large command.

>Hmmm, this sounds like an ANSI mouse emulation.

Exactly so.

>THere's probably an option to turn it off in Procomm. I suggest you
>explore the possibility.

Nope.  For some reason they didn't provide a way to shut this off.
You have to patch the code to do it.

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From: baseball@catch-the-fever.scd.ucar.edu (Gregg Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Paradise VGA Problems
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:44:50 GMT
Organization: Scientific Computing Divison/NCAR Boulder, CO

In article 1596 of comp.os.ms-windows.setup,
aruggeri@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony Robert Ruggeri) asked >>

>> I recently installed one of the new Paradise drivers for 640x480x256 mode
>> under Win 3.1, but the driver seems to have some serious problems.  I have
>> a Paradise card with 512k and the driver is mmwd480, the "WD VGA" which
>> is much faster than older Paradise drivers.  Unfortunately, whenever
>> I scroll down (never up) in almost any program, including file list boxes
>> or main screens, I get pieces of the windows in the scrolled box, or
>> suddenly appearing at different parts of the screen.  In my communications
>> program, for instance, the title bar (or part of it) may appear on the
>> terminal screen or at the icons at the bottom.  Is there an updated driver
>> of some kind available that does not have this problem?

It may not be the driver's fault.  I recently installed a CompuAdd/Paradise
Windows Accelerator Card, and had problems like this until I discovered on
the last page of the manual that I needed to prevent Windows from devouring
the memory range A000-C7FF.  After I added X=A000-CFFF to the arguments of
EMM386.EXE these video problems disappeared.

Hope this helps.

Gregg

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From: ee91alk@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew L Kirby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: 32bit disk access?
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:31:00 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


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

Has anybody else had similar problems?e
From: frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Replacing the MS 32bit disk driver
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:37:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: yetti.1497
Distribution: world
Organization: York University, Dept. of Computer Science

Hello,

I have a UltraStor 32bit disk driver to be used in the Virtual memory setting
for my ESDI drive. How do I replace the one provided by Microsoft? What is the
file name I need to replace?

Thanks,

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