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From: ben@val.com (Ben Thornton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: more gripes about Win 3.0
Keywords: trashing disks
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.224057.13790@val.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 22:40:57 GMT
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Organization: Video Associates Labs
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jwb@cci632.UUCP ( co-op) writes:


>  The particular error I encountered was with the File Manager.  
> I was happily copying files from floppy to hard disk when I got 
> a standard "Unrecoverable Applications Error" etc.  I thought, 
> "okay, it does this all the time."  a couple minutes later, 
> i got a divide by zero error also.  This is what got me thinking.

  I experienced a similar thing twice now, but only after installing
a Trident 640x480x256 driver for the TVGA8900.  Guess I should have
learned the first time :-).  The main difference is that windows
would report a corrupt main group file and then when I exit, there is
a divide overflow and the machine halts.  After rebooting, CHKDSK
reports crosslinks and a trashed windows directory.  Also, Norton
Disk Doctor does find the trashed FAT.  I'm not sure whether or not
the Trident driver is responsible, but I had used Windows 3.0 for
several weeks with the standard VGA driver with no disk corruption
problems prior to installing the Trident Driver.

> Needless to say, I am not using Win 3.0 any more.  I would also
> add that it never did run well on my 10 MHZ 286 even with 2 1/2
> megs of memory;  you really do  need a 386 with 3 megs or more.

I have had some nagging problems with strange hangs and inability
to run some of its own applications on my 12 MHz 286.  Also, the
keyboard never works right at 12 MHz.  It beeps (as thought the
keyboard buffer were full) with almost every keystroke.  Slowing
to 6 MHz corrects this.

>Thanx for hearing me out.

You're welcome.

>John Berndt, 
>CCI Communications Division, an STC Company
>Rochester, NY 14609

-- 
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