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From: laughner@news.nd.edu (Tom laughner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows3 hangs on Zenith 386
Message-ID: <355@news.nd.edu>
Date: 20 Aug 90 13:57:05 GMT
References: <1990Aug18.055414.1542@csrd.uiuc.edu>
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From article <1990Aug18.055414.1542@csrd.uiuc.edu>, by pwolfe@kai.com (Patrick Wolfe):
> We have a Zenith 386/16 with 7 Mb extended ram and a VGA monitor, and the newly
> purchased Windows 3 program just clears the screen and hangs the system when
> attempting to start up.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> 	Patrick Wolfe   (pat@kai.com, kailand!pat)
> 	System Programmer/Operations Manager, Kuck & Associates

We were having the problem with a Zenith 386 SX.  

1.  If you have a permanent swap file installed, you MUST use Zenith's
SWAPFILE.EXE.  Zenith or Microsoft will send it free.

2.  We had to permanently rename SHARE.EXE.  For some reason they don't
get along.  I originally did my install without it (Microsoft recommends
SHARE.EXE be renamed before installing) and loaded.  When I exited and
changed it back to SHARE.EXE, it crashed.

Tom Laughner
DOS Consultant/Analyst
University of Notre Dame
TLAUGHNE@IRISHMVA
(219) 239-8270