Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!spencer!akm From: akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: FLOPPY disk problems Summary: Windows bug? Keywords: Message-ID: <1990Jul26.051635.22374@cs.uoregon.edu> Date: 26 Jul 90 05:16:35 GMT References: <11270@j.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.uoregon.edu (Netnews Owner) Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Oregon Lines: 28 I've been experiencing a funny problem with Win3, and I'd like to know if anyone else has had the same problem. If I access a floppy drive from *any* application, and there is no disk inthe drive, Windows comes back with a dialog box telling me that there is a problem with the drive, and asks if it should cancel or retry. Regardless of which button I press, windows crashes and reboots my computer. I'm having the problem on two machines, both of which are 386, AMI Bios, Chips and Technology Chipset, Paradise clone card running in 800x600x16 mode. I even have the problem from a dos/4dos window. From the dos/4dos window, I get the impression that the window tries to go into full screen mode, causing the system to crash. Based on my experiences, I think that the whole of windows tries to go into text mode when this happens, with disastrous results. Has anyone experienced anything similar? Thanks for any info kartik ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anant Kartik Mithal akm@cs.uoregon.edu Department of Computer Science akm@oregon.BITNET University of Oregon