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From: suess@smaug.cs.hope.edu (Alex &)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: FLOPPY disk problems
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.164023.23362@cs.hope.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 16:40:23 GMT
References: <1990Jul26.051635.22374@cs.uoregon.edu>
Sender: suess@cs.hope.edu (Alex Suess)
Organization: Hope College Dept. of CS
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From article <1990Jul26.051635.22374@cs.uoregon.edu>, by akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal):
> 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?
> 
I had a similar problem while running DOS applications in 386 Enhanced
Mode.  While running WordPerfect if I did a directory of B:\, I would get
a drive not ready error and it would pop to full screen.  The problem has
disappeared since I turned Lock Application Memory on in the advanced
section of the PIF editor.

This is supposed to keep Windows from writing the active application to
disk in order to speed it up.  Don't ask me why this fixed the problem --
all I know is that it worked.

Hope this helps,

Alex Suess
Hope College
cs.hope.edu