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From: sas52992@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjay Ashok Sheth)
Subject: summary of responses on how to make VM size bigger
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:27:15 GMT

My original problem was that although I had more than enough hard drive space
that was contiguous, I could not grow my swapfile out more than 9 1/2 MB. 
Some facts to bear in mind are that I had 8 MB of RAM and about 30 MB of free
space.

I received several responses on this problem and they all were basically
about the same two pieces of information:

1) When you have enough Hard Drive space, Windows reccomends a swapfile size
and will not use a swapfile greater than four times the size of free memory
that you have after loading Windows. However, this can be changed  by 
entering system.ini, going under the [386Enh] section, and setting the
PageOverCommit variable to your desired multiplication factor (default
is 4). 

2) When you do NOT have enough hard drive space, Windows will automatically
recommend a swapfile size equal to 1/2 of the available space. Several ways
suggested to get around this centered on the basic fact of somehow making
more space on your hard drive (by temporarily zipping some stuff or copying
it off the hard drive), setting the size in Windows, and then copying your old
stuff back.

Note: It is not a good idea to make your swap-file too big because there will
just be too much disk activity and all your applications will run far slower. 
The only reason I need such a big one sometimes is to run Mathematica w/ its
gigantic kernel and integration packages (usually swallows 10-12 MB of just 
virtual memory - can you believe that? :)

Thanks to all who responded,

Sanjay Sheth


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: sasres@ocelot.unx.sas.com (Ron Stogner)
Subject: Windows 3.1 "reboot" screen
Originator: sasres@ocelot.unx.sas.com
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:32:08 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Keywords: Windows 3.1


Hi:

I am running Windows 3.1 on my 486 with a ATI Graphics Ultra.  Once and
a while I have had to press "Cntl-Alt-Del" in Windows.  This displays
a screen and waits for me to make a choice.  Unfortunately, this screen
is always scambled under my setup.  That's OK I don't really care.  I
would like to know, however, what the screen is saying and what my 
choices are.  I assume it's asking if I want to reboot, or exit windows
or something of that nature.  Could someone with an unscrambled screen
enlighten me?

Thanks

Ron Stogner
From: ddb@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Darren Brierton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Win3.1 and HP DeskJet 500
Date: 22 Nov 92 15:34:47 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK




A friend of mine has been experiencing problems with Windows 
3.1 and his HP DeskJet 500 which he's just bought.  He 
installed the win3.1 driver (hpdskjet.drv), from Control 
Panel: Printers, and set all the options properly.  
True-Type is enabled, and from inside Word for Windows 2.0 
he selected File...Printer Setup...Ok.  However, when he 
tries to print anything, the *left* margin comes out 
completely ragged.  Everyhing else is okay - fonts, 
resolution, point-sizes etc.  Its just the left margin which 
is all over the place.  This problem occurs with all apps, 
including Write, Notepad and Paintbrush.  I suspect its his printer 
which is faulty (the ink-head not being free to move all the 
way back to its leftmost resting position or some such 
thing), but has anyone else experienced anything similar?

Thanx,

Darren.

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From: ggawron@comm.mot.com (Glenn Gawron)
Subject: Opinions wanted: Diamond SpeedStar 24x
Organization: Motorola
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:53:20 GMT

I am thinking of buying a Diamond Speedstar 24x Graphics card.  
Is this one good or are there better ones for that kind of money???
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: ej@cc.univie.ac.at (Ewald Jenisch)
Subject: Viking display -> drivers for Win3.1?
Keywords: Viking, monochrome, 3.1, drivers
Organization: Vienna University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:07:51 GMT

Hi folks,

We've got a PC with a 'Viking' 19" monochrome monitor that's capable
of displaying up to 1280x960 pixels @ 66Hz. The corresponding
controller has 2MBits of RAM for bit-mapped graphics and is based on
the Hitachi HD63484 ACRTC Controller.


What we're desperately looking for is a win 3.1 driver for this
display! We only have a win2.x (!) driver that came with the kit once
we bought that display.

Does anybody out there know where we can find such a driver?

Thanks very much in advance,
-ewald

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From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Orchid Fahrenheit opinions / information requested
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:37:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


dutko@sysmgt.enet.dec.com (Nestor Dutko) writes:
>Does anyone have any opinions with regard to the Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 card? 
>I'm also looking for the refresh rates at various resolutions (ok, primarily
>at 1280x1024).

Good card.  Drivers are getting better, they were lame for a while.

1280x1024 is pushing it.  1280x1024x16 48Hz Interlaced.
1024x768 is MUCH better.  1024x768x256 70Hz

The ATI Ultras are probally faster, but I've not played with them.
Look into the #9 cards if you REALLY need 1280x1024 mode.  My guess is that
you actually don't.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.windows.ms,bit.listserv.win3-l
From: colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt)
Subject: Re: summary of responses on how to make VM size bigger
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:44:01 GMT

sas52992@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjay Ashok Sheth) writes:

>1) When you have enough Hard Drive space, Windows reccomends a swapfile size
>and will not use a swapfile greater than four times the size of free memory
>that you have after loading Windows.

What is the rationale for this 4x factor?

A related question is this:

In an attempt to set up a Permanent Swapfile LARGER THAN
the Recommended Size, I got a dialog that said something
like: 
	"Windows will not use a swapfile larger than the
	Maximum Recommended Size.  Do you wish to create 
	one anyway?"

What the hell does this mean?

	A) "Sure, kid, go ahead and create as big a swapfile
	   as your disk space will allow, but I'm not going
	   to use any more of it than I said I would."

	B) "The Maximum Recommended Size is a limit on how
	   much disk space will be used for the permanent 
	   swapfile.  Windows will not attempt to use more 
	   disk space than you specify.

IFF the true and correct answer is (A), then do I take it
to be also true and correct that it is the 4x factor that
makes this so?  Will changing the PageOverCommit variable
allow one to specify a larger permanent swapfile, AND have
ALL of it utilized?

Things that make you go hmmmm.


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: f3w@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Gellis)
Subject: More on GIF editing, etc.
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:43:36 GMT

All right, here's a quick question.

I'm interested in a program that can cut-and-paste images the way
word processors do that for text.  Now, Windows Paint does this very
well, but for some reason I cannot convert GIF images to BMP and maintain
the degree of image quality in the original.  I am still trying to figure
out how to save images as 8-bit (256 color) BMPs.

Now, I am trying out Paintshop Pro, and a few other programs, but none
of them seem to be able to do cut and paste within the original image.
They just cut part of an image and turn it into a whole new image, which
is useless for me (for one thing, I'm trying to repair--as much as 
possible--some images that got a bit scrambled during transmission 
over the net, things like Clint Eastwood with half of his face pushed
away from the other half...everything else is okay but the image is not
fully aligned...I'm also interested in making gag gifs, like Ronald
Reagan's head on Nancy's body.)

So, please, if anyone knows, can Paintshop Pro do cut-and-paste within
the original image (or it's temp file of an image) and HOW do I do that.
OR, if paintshop pro will not, does anyone know of programs that will?
VGACAD does, but it seems that it will only save in 200 x 320 formats,
so you lose a lot of detail.

Massive thanks in advance.  :)

Mark
f3w@mentor.cc.purdue.edu



Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: creol@netcom.com (Frederick J. Chavez)
Subject: soundblaster 2.0
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:03:45 GMT

	I am having a nagging problem with my sound card. It plays the wav files	without any problems. I can use an older version of jukebox (the one 
	that came with the 1.5 drivers) to play midi files. But once I do this,
	I cannot play wav files after closing jukebox. Using the recently
	downloaded jukebox and v 2 drivers I cannot play any midi files. I 
	know it has something to do with the midi mapper, but I have run out
	of patience and cannot figure out how to set the mapper. When trying
	to start the jukebox or any other midi software in win, I get various
	messages like incorrect mapper settings or device currently in use...

	Is it a mapper problem? I have tried several midi sequencers and mostly 	get pops and clicks when I try to play anything. Can someone out there
	with a sb 2 provide me with a correct midi map?

	Is it another problem such as incorrect driver? I think I have installed	the 2.0 driver correctly but I really dont know what else I have to have 	installed in control panel drivers.

	Please help! I am tired of hearing/seeing: by SB documentation "please
	see windows user manual for midi settings" and vicer versa! I really do 	not understand the midi mapper, the key maps, or the patch maps. Can 
	somebody explain these to me? Thanks!

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt)
Subject: Re: summary of responses on how to make VM size bigger
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:55:27 GMT

sas52992@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjay Ashok Sheth) writes:
>colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt) writes:
>>sas52992@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjay Ashok Sheth) writes:

>However, if you change the PageOverCommit var.
>to a value > 4, you change the Max. Recommended Size and can get even
>bigger swapfiles.


This has all been very interesting, but in my
journeys I have come to believe that the point
of maxing out the swapfile is moot; you can
create a monster swapfile but you'll run out of
System Resources before the swapfile gets full.
(At least this is what happened last night when I 
experimented with various sizes.)

So I guess Windows IS smarter than I am when 
recommending swapfile sizes!

Now I ask:  

Are system resources allocated to instances of an
application, or both instances and contents of
running applications.

That is, if one copy of Excel is running with no 
active document, does it take up the same amount 
of resources as another copy of Excel running with 
a large active document?

It would appear that the two copies of Excel require
different amounts of MEMORY, but do they require different
amounts of SRs also?

Following this line of reasoning, it seems that it
would only be a desktop cluttered with memory-hungry,
resource-wise applications that would benefit from a
gigantic swapfile.  

How well does this fit?  


-- 
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Colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
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From: "ron kulick" <ron.kulick@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: driver for tseng 3000 vga
Date: 16 Nov 92 02:09:36 EST
Reply-To: "ron kulick" <ron.kulick@execnet.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Executive Networks Information

             In article <1992Nov11.144614.30574@fourd.com>
                    David_Gibbs@fourd.com writes...

DG>Does anyone know where to get a Win3.1 driver for a VGA board using the
  >ET3000 chipset?  The company is in Korea (out of phone range even if I
  >number).  The board will display 256 colors in DOS, but only 16 in Wind
  >ideas?

Found this on my local BBS, maybe it'll work.

ET3WIN31.ZIP   596022  05-21-92  Windows 3.1 Video Drivers For Orchid
                                 Prodesigner Plus (Might Work With Other
                                 Cards Based on Tseng Et3000).

Found these on the "MicroSoft Support BBS" -  1-206-936-6735. I couldn't
find anything for the "ET3000" on the BBS.

Filename       Size     Date    Description
----------    ------   -------  ----------------------------
WDL.TXT        31585  10-28-92  Full Contents Description of this Area
CHIPS.EXE     460292  10-27-92  Chips & Technology Display Drivers
UPDATE.TXT     67608  10-23-92  WDL Update information
ATI.EXE       828888   6-19-92  Display-Drivers for ATI Video Cards
CGA.EXE       167233   4-06-92  Display-Driver for CGA Video
DGIS30.EXE    433554  10-08-92  Display-DGIS 3.0
MMDISP.EXE    350031   4-06-92  Display-Multimedia Display Drivers
RGDI.EXE      386455   4-06-92  Display-Appian RGDI Drivers
S3.EXE        589355   4-06-92  Display-S3 Based Display Drivers
TSEN1A.EXE    264187   6-15-92  Tseng ET4000 640X480 16 colors
TSEN1B.EXE    409660   6-15-92  Tseng ET4000 800X600 16 colors
TSEN1C.EXE    415910   6-15-92  Tseng ET4000 1024X768 16 colors
TSEN1D.EXE    416012   6-15-92  Tseng ET4000 1280X1024 16 colors
TSEN2A.EXE    248284   6-15-92  Tseng ET4000 640X480 256 colors
TSEN2B.EXE    407813   6-15-92  Tseng ET4000 800X600 256 colors
TSEN2C.EXE    403062   6-15-92  Tseng ET4000 1024X768 256 colors
TSENG3.EXE    451108   4-06-92  Display-Tseng ET4000 32K Color Drivers
TSENG4.EXE    451114   4-06-92  Display-Tseng ET4000 64K Color Drivers


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From: tardieu@blizzard.enst.fr (Samuel Tardieu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Setting up 800x600 trident drivers on a network.
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:53:56 GMT
Reply-To: tardieu@inf.enst.fr
Organization: Telecom Paris, France

In article <1992Nov4.154515.27034@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>, shooter@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Shooter) writes:
-> 
-> Hello all,
-> 	I have installed Windows 3.1 on a Novell network server, with a
-> setup/a command.  I then ran setup/n to setup Windows on my personal PC.  It
-> seemed to create some INI files, and my GRP files.  When I installed a
-> generic set of INI files for the rest of the users, I used the default VGA
-> drivers that came with windows.  I am now trying to install the Trident
-> 800x600x256 drivers that I just got from cica.  I run setup /n again.  I
-> give the directory of where the new video drivers are(They're on my local
-> hardrive and not the windows directory on the server).  It sees the drivers,
-> and claims that it is doing some setting up.  After that, when I try to run
-> windows, an error comes up saying that it can't find vddtvga.386 .  So I
-> copied it to my local windows directory.  Now ehn I run windows, it says
-> that the vddtvga.386 file may be corrupt, or my setup in not correct.  It
-> tells me to run setup again.  This is weird because the vddtvga.386 file is
-> a new copy from cica.

There is probably a bug on the 800x600x256 Trident's driver. I know many peoples
which have a 256K board and many problems with this driver. Noone could have a
correct display.
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From: god@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Summary of getting Win into Enhanced mode.
Date: 23 Nov 92 00:10:33 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Thanks to ALL of those who responded to my query about getting Windows
into the Enhanced mode after upgrading to a 386 MB.  I finally did
solve the problem with your help, and so I thought I'd share both the
successful, and unsuccessful answers (leaving out names).

In comp.os.ms-windows.setup you will recall that I wrote:

>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?

The first incorrect answer was as follows:

>For Win 3.1 you need 4MB oR more of memory, and 20 MHz is also a
>little slow, but you can run it in the standard mode.

Not so.  The manual clearly states that what is needed is 1 meg of
extended and 256K of free conventional memory to run in enhanced mode.
However, 20MHz is a tad on the slow side.

The next answer was more helpful, and might have worked but for some
missing files that Windows had failed to install.  This one appeared
on the network.


>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.


And it did try to force it into the 386 mode.  It also notified me
that some of the files that Windows was looking for were missing.

Finally, the absolute correct answer.

>If you switched to the new machine by just copying your software
>files then you don't have the parts of Windows which are necessary
>for enchanted mode operation.  To conserve scarce disk space on the
>user's system the Windows installer does not load the parts of
>Windows which require a 386 if the hardware has only a 286.

>The safest thing to do is to re-install Windows from scratch.


Bingo!  Apparently Windows, like much of Microsoft's stuff, is very
equipment specific.  Once I reloaded (upgraded).  It went right into
the 386 mode and runs like a top.  It even kept all of the old stuff
that I really did want to keep, so I was very pleased.  Again, thanks
to all who responded.

John D. Altevogt                                  Altevogt@UKANVM
Department of Sociology                    God@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
University of Kansas                        (913) 542-2096 (home)
Lawrence, KS 66045                           (913) 864-4111 (off)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: re: telling windows about a network
From: Stephen Gibson
Date: 18 Nov 92 12:46:02 PST
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA


In article <1992Nov18.190914.4046@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> 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

You do not have to reinstall.  From DOS, go to your Windows directory and 
run SETUP.  Highlight "Network:" and press ENTER.  Select your network type 
and swap disks when asked.  You can do a similar thing from within Windows 
if you run "Windows Setup" from your "Main" group.


Stephen Gibson
System Support Specialist
Sonoma State Universtiy
eMAIL:  gibsonst@sonoma.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: pfaulsti@abacus.bates.edu (Paul Faulstich)
Subject: MathCad 3.1 for Windows
Organization: Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:10:14 GMT
Followup-To: pfaulsti@abacus.bates.edu

I have a 386-SX 16MHz Epson Laptop with 4 Meg Ram, and 40 Meg Hard
drive (about 7M free).  I use windows almost exclusively for MathCad 3.1
(I prefer WP 5.1 in DOS because it is so SLOW in Windows they way I am
currently set up) and am wondering if anyone can give me advice as to how I
should set up windows to optimize it for MathCad.  Any info would be
appreciated (Eg, cache size, ramdrive size (if any at all),
foreground/background priorities, pif file info, etc.

Obviously, the first thing I need to do is get a co-processor.


Thanks in advance!

Paul Faulstich    pfaulsti@abacus.bates.edu
                  Dept. of Physics    Bates College    Lewiston, ME

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: fischman@nynexst.com (Gary Fischman)
Subject: How to use 3.0 drivers with 3.1
Reply-To: fischman@nynexst.com
Organization: NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 20:24:37 GMT

I have some windows 3.0 drivers that came with my Paradise compatible board that I
can't load in 3.1.  The driver that was actually configured *before* the upgrade was
installed automatically, but I can't load the others.  It appears something is
missing from the setup.inf file (OEMsomethingorother).  

How do I fix this without going back to the store I bought the board from and begging
for a 3.1 driver disk?


Thanks in advance to those who respond.  Please respond via e-mail as I don't
subscribe to this group.
---
	Gary J. Fischman
	NYNEX Science & Technology
	fischman@nynexst.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: blunden@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
Subject: Re: Windows finds no mice in COM3 or COM4 ??
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:18:48 GMT

According to my manual, you cannot use a mouse on serial port
3 or 4 --- it must be used on port 1 or 2.  However, you might
try going into Control Panel under ports and give COM3 a different
interrupt, say irq5.
From: s_furrer@irau26.ira.uka.de (Andreas Furrer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Setup with 2 SVGA (one for debugging)
Date: 16 Nov 1992 08:35:30 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: irau26.ira.uka.de

Is it possible to have two SVGA-cards (ET 4000 with 1Mb, Paradise with 512K)
installed in one computer and to use the Paradise card like a mono-card
for debugging?

Andreas Furrer
s_furrer@ira.uka.de

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