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From: unbent@uncecs.edu (Jay F. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Win 3.0 installation fails.  Need help.
Keywords: Windows WIN 3.0 installation failure
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.135532.12385@uncecs.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 90 13:55:32 GMT
Organization: UNC Chapel Hill
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	The system:  Austin 386-20, 20 MHz 386
		      Phoenix BIOS 1.10.10
		      2 MB RAM
		      40 MB WD 93044-A IDE Hard Disk
		      Paradise Autoswitch EGA 480

	The problem:  Repeated failure to successfully install Windows 3.0
on my D: drive.  (HD is configured as two 20 MB drives, C: and D:)  The last
attempt necessitated a reformat of D:.  Principal symptoms: (1) Successive
installation attempts ate progressively more disk space, despite my having
erased their predecessors.  The last shot used circa 9 MB.  (2) Inability to
run MS Word 5.0 in 386 enhanced mode.  The error message that flashed by
read something to the effect of "Incorrect SCREEN.VID".  That's Word's
screen driver -- and I of course had the correct one in the Word startup
directory.

	A specific question:  My system is described as having an "Intel
80385 cache controller chip running 32K-64K static RAM cache @ 25
nanoseconds".  Is this getting in the way of things that Windows wants to
do?

	A general question:  Any ideas as to what's going on here, and what
I can do about it?  I'd like to be able to take advantage of the (reputed)
wonders of Windows 3.

And we thank you for your support....   Jay Rosenberg
					(unbent@ecsvax.BITNET)

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JAY ROSENBERG  Dept. of Philosophy  CB# 3125  UNC  Chapel Hill, NC  27599
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