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From: philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil BARRETT)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Having trouble with MS Windows 3.0 on 386SX clone
Message-ID: <55820@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 90 19:37:10 GMT
References: <4921@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil BARRETT)
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In article <4921@milton.u.washington.edu> markad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Mark Donnell) writes:
>Well, I have a similar but, I think worse problem. After typing win 
>(or win /3, to make sure), I get the welcome screen, then the screen goes
>blank. and remains that way - for hours. Apparently the system is running
>(I can alt-f alt-x <ret> to exit, and it does), but the screen stays blank.
>
>I am using AMI Aug 15 (?) 1988, and have a genoa video card.
>Has anyone else run into similar problems with either of these?
>

In general, people who are seeing this kind problem should try excluding the
region c000 - f000.  There are cases where ROM doesn't have a valid signature
or whatever and Windows doesn't recognize it as ROM.  To exclude, in the
[386enh] section of system.ini, add the following line:
		emmexclude=C000-F000
If this cures the problem, try cutting the exclude region down (say, C000-C7FF)
until you find out the region that is causing the problem.  You dont want to
exclude all the address space because Win3E uses the ROM area for I/O buffer
mapping.

This is described in the sysini2.txt file in your windows directory.

Phil

I am speaking for myself. The above opinion
is not necessarily that of my employer.