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From: paul@ace.acadiau.ca (Paul Steele)
Subject: NT Won't Install: TRAP 0E - PAGE FAULT
Organization: Acadia University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:29:57 GMT

When I try to install Windows NT on a Clone 486DX2/33, it doesn't get very 
far at all before I get the error "TRAP 0000000E ====== PAGE FAULT ======.
It gives a dump of the registers and then just hangs.  It says it is reading
the file txtsetup.txt.  The PC has 16 megs of RAM, a 120 meg HD, and a Sony
CD ROM player with Future Domain controller.

Does anyone have any ideas what this error indicates?

___
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Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, B0P 1X0  Internet: Paul.Steele@acadiau.ca
From: jessea@vpmeu015.me.vp.com (Jesse W. Asher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: NT on a TriStar...DISAPPOINTED!!!
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:08:30 GMT
Organization: Varco-Pruden Buildings

In article <1e0q44INNom6@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, bsteiner@mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu (Brian W. Steiner) wrote the following:
>
>I am running the Oct. beta of NT on a TriStar 486/50Mhz/8MbRAM/340MbHD EISA bus system with a Diamand Stealth (S3) video card.  NT installed OK but I was __very__ disappointed with the performance of NT!!!  So much so that
>I have switched back to WIN3.1 under DOS.

>-Screen redraws are very slow.
>-Mouse tracking is very jumpy (ie. you can tell the system is very over burdend).
>-Frequently run out of memory (although my swap file is 15Mb)
>-NT<-->LM 2.1 not fully supported (cannot "see" the LM file servers)

We've installed NT here (the latest beta) on a Gateway 2000 486/66 
and it screams.  Installation took place in about 2 hours and was fairly
easy.  I wonder if it doesn't like your machine?

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                             Varco-Pruden Buildings
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From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Trantor SCSI T128 Driver IS HERE
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:37:30 GMT

In  <1992Nov20.165527.4258@cbnews.cb.att.com>  liaohen@cbnews.cb.att.com (Heng-Hsin Liao) writes:
> From article <1992Nov20.144812.27448@cognos.com>, by smithb@cognos.com (Brad Smith):
> > Posted? Posted where. I'd like to get hold of this driver, since the company
> > (foolishly, IMHO) bought these cards for use with the CD-ROM drives without
> > checking to see if they were on the supported list.
> >
>
> Please broadcast where the T128 driver was posted to. I think a lot of people
> need this driver.

The driver is available via anonymous FTP on my PC ALLFIWIB1.WiWi.Uni-Marburg.DE
it is in the ./nt directory and is called NT-130.EXE (self extracting ZIP).
Please note, that this only my PC and I cannot guarantee 24h availability.
If someone with a bigger machine is willing to carry lots of NT stuff, please
e-mail me and I will upload it.

People with no FTP access should call any WINNTNET node in Fido-Net. In Germany
call +49-6425-6192 (HST/V32bis) for more than 15 MB Files for /NT.

Christoph
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From: perkins@tallis.enet.dec.com (Eric Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: NT Hangs if connected Printer is not turned on:
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:30:04 GMT
Reply-To: perkins@tallis.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton MA


I have seen various message in this area concerning NT hanging either
during installation or trying to boot it.

There is one area that I found which will cause NT to hang all the time
(at least on my system) and others should know about this either when
trying to install NT or trying to get NT up and running.

I have a dot matrix printer off my parallel port and I can hang
NT all the time if I turn the printer off and leave the cable connected!

If I disconnect the cable the system will resume or not hang.

At some point during the install NT will try to initialize the printer
and at this point if the printer is not turned on setup will hang.

And if while NT is booting it cannot send out its init data, it will hang

So anyone who is having problems either installing or running NT
make sure the printer is turned on or disconnected!

Microsoft: I reported this bug in the July release through this
           internet area and I had hoped that it would have been fixed by
           now. Maybe in the next release or final release?

-- Eric
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From: rmorales@dit.upm.es (Rodolfo M. Gonzalez)
Subject: WHERE COULD I GET NT BETA RELEASE?
Organization: UUES, Asociacion de Usuarios de UNIX, Spain
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:13:21 GMT



	I'd like to know if it's posible to get the beta version of
	NT, and if so, where and how. I'm quite interested in it.

					- Rodolfo

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Rodolfo M. Gonzalez
DIT - Dept. de Ing. Telematica
ETSIT - Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.

e-mail: rmorales@sanson.dit.upm.es
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From: pierce@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: ATI ultra drivers
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 20:29:06 PST
Reply-To: pierce@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us

In article <1992Oct31.185237.28717@leela.cs.orst.edu>, marrs@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Scott Marr) writes:
> In article <1992Oct30.040110.8153@u.washington.edu> tad@wrq.com (Tad Marshall) writes:
] >The word from the Microsoft people I talked to is that they are totally
] >focused on quality (e.g. stability) and performance from now until the
] >product is released.  Both of these have improved considerably from the
] >July release to the October release, but more work is required.
] 
] Well, I'm not so sure about the quality of the S3 drivers.  They don't
] work with my STB Wind/X card.  They must set the scan rates to something
] really weird.  My 640x480 is scrunched, and the side pin is bowed out.
] The 800x600 is even more scrunched, and the 1024x768 causes my monitor
] to fully loose sync.  At this point I have to re-install NT because I
] can't see what I'm doing to try and get back to a previous setting. (My
] monitor is a ViewSonic 5+ set to accept scan rates up to 72 hz.)
] 
] So, for now I'm running in plain old VGA mode; slow, but at least I can
] see it.  MS - did you work with S3 on these drivers?  They sure don't
] work for me.  (And Logitech mouse support would be nice!)



The problem with the S3 drivers is probably related to the various clock
generator chips used by different vendors.  The same code output from the
S3 will mean different dot and/or memory clocks on different cards.

Even different versions of the same model card can have subtle differences.
In the DOS world this was taken care of by the VGA bios.  But in NT (and UNIX)
the bios is inaccessible when NT is running.

	-john r pierce
From: potts@oit.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: NT on a TriStar...DISAPPOINTED!!!
Date: 23 Nov 1992 15:42:44 GMT
Organization: Instructional Technology Laboratory, University of Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: helen.oit.itd.umich.edu

In article <1992Nov20.220830.7847@vpbuild.vp.com> jessea@vpmeu015.me.vp.com (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>In article <1e0q44INNom6@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, bsteiner@mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu (Brian W. Steiner) wrote the following:
>>
>>I am running the Oct. beta of NT on a TriStar 486/50Mhz/8MbRAM/340MbHD EISA bus system with a Diamand Stealth (S3) video card.  NT installed OK but I was __very__ disappointed with the performance of NT!!!  So much so that
>>I have switched back to WIN3.1 under DOS.
>
>>-Screen redraws are very slow.
>>-Mouse tracking is very jumpy (ie. you can tell the system is very over burdend).
>>-Frequently run out of memory (although my swap file is 15Mb)
>>-NT<-->LM 2.1 not fully supported (cannot "see" the LM file servers)

I have a Stealth VRAM card also (on an AMI 386/40 with 20 megs of memory).
I have seen some of the problems you indicate (mouse tracking tends to be
jumpy). Try running the performance monitor - I'm curious. When I run it
on my machine, CPU utilization in privileged and nonprivileged mode goes up
and down like I'd expect it to, depending on what I'm doing; that looks
pretty normal. "Interrupts per second" is always pegged out at maximum,
though. Anyone else see these results with a Stealth card? I've never seen
the memory problems though. I'm wondering if the generic S3 drivers have
a hard time handling the Stealth card because it interrupts too often.
There is a DIP switch setting that has something to do with this but I
haven't tried it yet (afraid to mess with it!)


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From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: no C++ for RISC?
Date: 20 Nov 92 03:02:28 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Distribution: comp

In article <SINYAW.92Nov11223210@starbright.smsc.sony.com> sinyaw@starbright.smsc.sony.com (Sin-Yaw Wang) writes:
>
>
>Is Microsoft committd to have full C/C++ 7.0, MFC included, supported
>when NT is released?

Yes, as previously announced, we will release c & c++ support for
x86, mips and alpha processors before or with the release of
Windows NT -- Alistair
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Have I missed something here?
From: stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz (Stefan Olson)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 07:46:51 +1200

In <1992Nov21.183010.3898@microsoft.com> alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
>API does not change enough to make re-prints worthwhile. With the october
>SDK, started and end-user beta, which is operating system only. Its the same
>code as in the october SDK, less the stuff that programmers need.

Why then are people asked to be under Non-Disclosure Agreement for the
end-user beta if it is the same as the october SDK??

Thanks,
Stefan

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From: claude@cse.ucsc.edu (Claude Noshpitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: HELP: Re-(De-) Installing NT
Summary: need to redo install onto NTFS partition
Date: 21 Nov 92 03:01:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: spica.ucsc.edu

Arrgh.  Hi Net!  I have been burned by the wrong-video-driver-at-install
problem and apparently need to start from scratch.  Unfortunately, I
don't have enough disk space free to reinstall on different partition
than the one I initially did.  

Question 1: Will my system be totally unbootable if I simply
    fdisk/format the current NTFS partition?

Question 2: Do I need to do more than copy my DOS boot sector over the
    NT one to make the system DOS-only?

Question 3: Can anyone supply the exact keystrokes to "blindly" set the
video driver to VGA, since the driver I installed *doesn't work* :-( ?

Thanks very much for any help at all.  FWIW, the answer to Question 3
may be the least traumatic.... 

--claude
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From: rgast@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Ron Gast 952-2120)
Subject: Video Drivers for Win NT
Keywords: Win32, Video
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:54:49 GMT

Hi, 

I recently received my Oct Rel Beta SDK. I have successfully installed it on my AST system.
When, I went to a higher resolution video driver however (I initially used the VGA) the
problems began. I have an Orchid ProDesigner IIs card with 512K VRAM. I assume that the
ProDesigner II drivers should work for this card. After re-configure at the 800x600
resolution all I get is blue and green images on the screen. I can make out what is on the
screen well enough to chage back to VGA. I also tried the ET4000 800x600 and get no-sync
for my monitor. (ProDesigner IIs uses ET4000). It required use of my emergency repair disk
to recover from the ET4000 drivers.

Any ideas?

Ron Gast
rgast@mksol.dseg.ti.com



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From: walter@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Reiner Walter)
Subject: BETA RELEASE, DDK, WHEN?
Organization: Institut fuer Nachrichtensysteme, Uni Karlsruhe
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:16:40 GMT

I'd like to know when the beta release and the
DDK will be available in Germany, and how much the
DDK is.

Thanks for every information, Uli.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From:  hady@isi.itfs.nsk.su (Hapugin Andrey)
Subject: DLL format description needed
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:03:41 GMT
Reply-To: hady@isi.itfs.nsk.su
Organization: Institute of Informatics Systems
Keywords: DLL format

Can anybody help me to find description of .DLL
files format for MS/DOS,OS/2 & Windows? I need
it to implement dynamic loader/linker for DLLs and
unfortunately I can't find its description here.
Any help well be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Andy D. Khapugin (Hady),
hady@isi.itfs.nsk.su
From: karmira@natinst.com (Apostolos Karmirantzos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: setting escape for terminal telnet
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:22:57 GMT
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: falcon.natinst.com

hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:

>In  <!wq1z_m@rpi.edu>  moncrg@aix.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff) writes:
>> is there any known way to change the default escape key
>> for telnet sessions using terminal. the defualt seems
>> to be ^C which is rather odd as everyone else seems to
>> use ^]
>>
>I totally agree with you. ^C is not a good idea for a default escape
>character, since you need it as a break key on most Unix systems. I don't
>want to use stty everytime I log on. But I haven't found any solution now.

>Christoph

  My solution to the problem is to use the functions keys, and define one as
"escape ^(whatever character you want)^M"
  Every time I open a terminal, I hit the specific function key and that redifine
the escape fot the telnet. Then I use "open host" and everything works fine.
  Of course this is a temporary fix. The correct fix would be to change something
in registry, but I have no idea what
	Lakis

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: setting escape for terminal telnet
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:11:49 GMT

In  <!wq1z_m@rpi.edu>  moncrg@aix.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff) writes:
> is there any known way to change the default escape key
> for telnet sessions using terminal. the defualt seems
> to be ^C which is rather odd as everyone else seems to
> use ^]
>
I totally agree with you. ^C is not a good idea for a default escape
character, since you need it as a break key on most Unix systems. I don't
want to use stty everytime I log on. But I haven't found any solution now.

Christoph
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From: themos@umbc5.umbc.edu (Mr. Themos Pentakalos; ADMIN-COMP)
Subject: Re: Anyone had experience with Gateway computer company & shipping?
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:50:20 GMT

I just had to give my own input to this question...

G2000 had more problems back a few years ago, and lately we have not
had any hardware problems, until last week. This new 486 DX2 50E came
with a 256k RAM video board. This means that Windows hangs everytime
you try to do something graphics intensive. Although Gateway mentioned
that NO PC has anything less than a 1Meg video card on it, it is possible
that one came faulty.

As for their support lines, waiting 2 days to get through is not
an exaggeration. Actually, it didn't bother me because they happened
to be playing a rather nice CD on the phone while I waited. It was
Vivaldi's four seasons... I got to listen to at least 2 of them!

-Themos


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: edge@unislc.uucp (Brian Edginton)
Subject: Opening Tape0 from C
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:40:48 GMT


Has anyone discovered a method of accessing the tape drive
from anywhere other than the backup program? I have searched
most of the documentation and tried various combinations of
\Devices\Tape0, etc. to no avail. There are several functions
that allow determination of tape type, media type, etc. but
all require that a fd be used. I would assume that fd is the
result of an open -- but I cannot discover what I need to 
open.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
 edge


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From: jvanderm@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (JVANDERM - MUTUAL GROUP)
Subject: IBM Token Ring Config Problems
(re: October NT beta)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:00:43 GMT

Looking back through some of the other postings, I see that some of
you have been able to get the IBM 16/4 Token Ring working with NT by
using the default settings (using ROM address CC000).  I haven't been
able to get it to work after numerous install attempts.  Has anybody
else had this problem?  Here's the dip-switch settings on my TR card:

            1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12
       off  x        x  x           x  x
        on     x  x        x  x  x        x  x


These settings are working fine & dandy using MS-Dos, so I don't
understand why they aren't working under NT.

John Vandermay, The Mutual Group.

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From: matt@Turing.ORG (Matthew L. Kreger)
Subject: Re: Anyone had experience with Gateway computer company & shipping?
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:56:33 GMT

I got my machine from Gateway 2000 1.5 years ago and had the 200MB IDE HD
die about 6 days before the end of the warrantee.  The power supply died
subsequently (out of warrantee) and if you get through to tech support
(or sales for that matter) w/in 2 days it's a miracle... although they have
just expanded their space and workforce, so that may not be true anymore.
I also ordered a Telepath $200 V.32BIS modem in February which finally
arrived in October and hasn't connected w/in 5 attempts since (it has a
patch daughterboard and lots of wire patchs on it).  
HOWEVER! GW2K still offers great prices and decent components for the most
part. I am VERY unhappy with them, but not enough to start buying big blue.
I have friends who have had worse experiences with Dell, Compaq and IBM
I wonder if it's just the nature of the beast? 

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From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: Word for Windows:
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:37:57 GMT

In  <2205@sousa.tay.dec.com>  perkins@tallis.enet.dec.com (Eric Perkins) writes:
>
>
> - Is there any way to save the .INI file for WFW off in a separate user
>   directory?

> So the general problem looks like how can you set up NT to allow separate
> preferences for each user of Windows 3.x and Windows NT apps?
> Are there APIs for this and is there a way to set up NT for the Windows 3.x
> case?
>
There is a registry entry iniFileMapping. But what I don't know is, if this
can be also configured on a per user basis and if it is possible to add
customized files like WINWORD.INI or EXCEL4.INI, since there is very few
information about the registry available now. Maybe someone from Microsoft
can give us a little hint on this.

/Christoph
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: Looking for details on symmetric multiprocessing
Date: 21 Nov 92 18:39:48 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Nov19.161155.27217@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> plouff@kali.enet.dec.com (Wes Plouff) writes:
>
>After reading the regrettably short sections of _Inside Windows NT_
>which describe multiprocessing, I'd like to know more.  Can anyone
>provide a pointer to descriptions of the requirements - hardware, BIOS
>and HAL - for multiprocessor implementations of Windows NT?  Is any
>technical description available for the publically demonstrated NCR
>multiprocessor server machine?

The HAL developers kit is not yet ready, though it should be quite
soon. I notice you're from DEC - you've definately got access to
this information internally, since you're a source-code licensee,
so I'd contact people in Dec-West

The requirements are for a memory architecture where each processor
has an identical view of memory. An ideal architecture has each
rpocessor equally able to process i/o, though this is not a
requirement

-- Alistair
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From: rupertb@is.morgan.com (Rupert Brown)
Subject: Antique Trivia Corner
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:20:21 GMT

Just to let you know that MYZ80 a DOS based Z80 CP/M emulator appears 
to run ok in NT VDM.
It'll take me a while to copy over my old versions of WordStar & Multiplan 
to check it out thoroughly  :-)


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