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From: efowler@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Fowler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Trouble in standard mode
Message-ID: <7683@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 17 Sep 90 17:18:11 GMT
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Greetings Netlanders!
I have been having trouble running Windows on an Epson in standard 
mode. I have an Epson Equity 386/20 with win3, 3 megs extended, Video7 
VGA, no network, no printer, no nuthin' nonstandard nohow. Windows fails 
spectacularly in standard more, e.g. it reboots or locks up totally 
immediately. Enhanced mode seems to be OK. Some possibly relevant facts:

(1) A friend remarks that Epsons use a nonstandard set of interrupts for 
the video. 

(2) Another friend reports that he had the same problem with a Video7 
board. The V7 people gave him a program called V7DIAG.EXE (or something 
like that) and some instructions for setting dipswitches. He says he followed
them and it did not work, but I thought I would mention it anyway. 

(3) I have the standard windows 3 VGA driver installed. Trying to install 
the video7 driver when I install Win3 gets a screenfull of total trash 
in the middle of the installation process(trash = wavy lines, snow, etc). 

(4) I have done enough windows related work to know that this is not the 
garden variety of HIMEM.SYS problem. No device drivers except SMARTDRV 
load after HIMEM. The memory in enhanced mode seems to be OK. 

Any help appreciated. 
=Eric