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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Trouble in standard mode
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.160250.27977@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 16:02:50 GMT
References: <1990Sep9.224303.10981@bdmrrr.bdm.com> <4060@rtifs1.UUCP> <7683@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
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In article <7683@milton.u.washington.edu> efowler@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Fowler) writes:
>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. 

Don't know.

>
>(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. 

Which V7 board? They make several. I have a Fastwrite VGA and it works fine in
all modes on my 386/25 at 800 X 600 resolution.

>
>(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). 

I have no problems with either the V7 driver (Only the 800 X 600 16 color mode
works with a Fastwrite, the board cannot handle higher modes.) or the Win 3
640 X 480 256 color mode.

>
>(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. 

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