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From: us277492@mmm.serc.3m.com (Arthur T. Manning)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 kick's out on my system...
Summary: Not the same answer the others gave...
Keywords: Windows
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.022809.17078@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 5 Sep 90 02:28:09 GMT
References: <*6-%Y?#@rpi.edu> <118481@linus.mitre.org>
Reply-To: us277492@mmm.serc.3m.com (Arthur T. Manning)
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
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I had my HP QS/20 working for about two weeks.  I was happily running
in enhanced mode, using dos shell windows, starting up telnet sessions
to our Sun-Unix system (Wintcp ethernet board), and generally running
just fine.

Then one day (last Thursday) I decided to try to  use the Logitech Scanman
hand scanner, and attempt to use there windows 2 version demo recompiled
using our windows SDK.  I don't know if this was the cause of the problem,
but it was unable to startup shortly therafter.  It behaves just as 
described: Windows 3.0 Logo, pause, then DOS prompt in the upper left
corner.  It starts up just fine in standard mode (win /s).  I am using
a logitech trackball as well.

What's so puzzling about this is that it was WORKING just fine for a few
weeks, and now it decides it cannot run in enhanced mode!  I have
re-installed Windows several times in case something got closed
improperly, but to no avail :(.

I called Microsoft, and talked to a guy named Khoa for about 2 hours, and
they came to the conclusion that it must have something to do with BIOS,
but I checked all the revision numbers, and they are all current (I
purchased the thing only two months ago).

Is there a debug switch somewhere for windows?  This bug is really giving
me grief, and not even Microsoft seems to have the solution.


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