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From: JLI@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DeskView / QEMM
Message-ID: <7599@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 89 00:49:30 GMT
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Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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> 
> i meant that ctr-alt-del doesn't work (just hangs) from DOS not from
> DV.  the problem is with QEMM and i know others who have this problem.
> i haven't spent too much time trying to figure it out but i may just
> call the DV people.  any suggestions?
> -- 

  I have been using DesqView for nearly two years started from v1.0
and now using v2.25 w/ QEMM 386.  There are some bugs and some 
compatibility problems with certain software packages,  but I haven't
seen the warm-boot problem.
  We recently installed DV in 10 386-based computers (different brands
with clock rates of 16MHz to 33MHz).  We had problem with 3 of these
units.  When running DV, they will hang up and keyboards are completely
disabled, so without hardware reset we cannot go anywhere.  After talking
to several vendors,  we found out that the Award BIOS v3.03 (which were
installed in the 3 units) was not compatible with DV (there maybe a
new question: is it compatible with OS/2 etc.?).  
  We replaced the ROM BIOS with Phoenix BIOS (386 plus v1.10 00), then
everything went to normal. We haven't had any problems since.
  I am not sure what exactly the problem with Award BIOS is and if
there are some other incompatible BIOSes, but I haven't had any problem
running DV with Phoenix and AMI BIOS.

Qiwu Liu
University of Kansas