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From: crm@icad.com (Christopher McConnell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Problem: Why not Standard Mode?
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.172616.27384@icad.com>
Date: 17 Sep 90 17:26:16 GMT
Organization: ICAD Inc., Cambridge, MA
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I have an AT 286 clone with 1meg of memeory and a 30 meg hard drive.  It is 
running at 8mhz, which is slow but ok for what I do with the machine.  I can 
only get windows to run in real mode.  Shouldn't I be able to use standard
mode also?  I am running DOS 3.1.  When I try to run standard mode, I get
the Microsoft Windows 3 title screen and then the system hangs.  I have to
power down to reboot.  My system starts up with the following:

Enhanced Graphic Adapter    Basic Time Inc.   (c) Copyright 1986  Version 1.2

AT Bios V.105 Copyright Award Software, Inc.
EV8603
01024 Kilobytes Memory Good

<machine then clears the screen and checks the A drive>

Compatability Software
Copyright (c) 1984,85,86 By Pheonix Technologoes, ltd.

Himem: Xdos Extender, Version 2.60 - 04/05/90
XMS Specification Version 2.0
Copyright 1988-1990 Microsoft Corp.

Installed A20 Handler Number 1
64k High Memory Area is Available

Nnansi.sys for EGA/VGA (80x86)            <I have the same problem
(c) Daniel Kegel, Pasadena, CA 1986        if I don't run nnansi.sys>
Modified By Tom Almy, 11/89

MIcrosoft SMARTDrive Disk Cache Version 3.08
    Cache Size: 320k in Extended Memory
    Room for 37 tracks of 17 sectors each
    Minimum Cache Size will be 0k

EGA Device Driver Version 2.10.18
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation  1984-1990
Copyright (c) IBM  1986-1987
Portions Copyright (c) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1987

Using default value of BCH for interrupt 2FH function calls
A copy of the EGA device driver is being installed

C>echo off

C>

<at this point I can type win/r to run in real mode or just
 win to hang the system.>

My Autoexec.bat looks like:

echo off
prompt $p$g
path c:\windows;c:\util;c:\dos;c:\sys;c:\emacs;
set temp=c:\windows\temp

My Config.sys looks like:

device=c:\himem.sys
device=c:\sys\nnansi.sys
device=c:\windows\smartdrv.sys 384 0
files=30
buffers=10
device=c:\windows\ega.sys

Is there anything I can change which can let me run in standard mode?

Any help in solving this mystory would be greatly appreciated.

						- Chris
						  crm@icad.com