Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!cunews!ajai From: ajai@sce.carleton.ca (Ajai Sehgal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 Message-ID: Date: 4 Jul 90 14:11:15 GMT References: <29506@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@ccs.carleton.ca (news) Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 18 For those having problems with Windows 3 and VGA, I came across an interesting find. After loading Windows 3, the system (286 clone 1Mb memory Standard VGA) worked fine .... for a while. At intermittent intervals (not always repeatable) the screen colours would get messed up and unreadable. The mouse cursor (arrow) became a 1" by 1.5" box which left traces of colours all over the screen. Upon exiting to DOS Prompt and returning by EXIT, all was fine.... for a while. At times I would get protected mode violation errors and at other times on startingWindows after the logo the screen would go grey-purple with the hour glass in the middle and the system locked up. The cause of these problems was very insidious. In the autoexec.bat, I had loaded the driver for the serial mouse (a Genius Mouse). Somehow this conflicted with the mouse driver in Windows causing all the problems. After deleting the installation of the driver from the autoexec.bat, Windows 3 works as advertised. Hows that for weird symptoms! -- Ajai.