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From: th82787@lehtori.tut.fi (Heinonen Tomi)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: What's going on?
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.093823.9242@assari.tut.fi>
Date: 24 Oct 90 09:38:23 GMT
Sender: th82787@assari.tut.fi (Heinonen Tomi)
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
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I have some difficulties with windows3. I installed windows3 succesfully
and it worked well when I used normal VGA 640*480 display. Then I installed
a new driver for my Tridend SVGA-video card and some difficulties appeared.
My computer:

EXPRESS 386  25 MHz
Videodisp.   Trident VGA 512 KB
memory       2MB

Well..  When I started windows first time after the new video driver was
installed nothing appeared on screen. Windows started but it didn't displayed
anything. I tried to boot my machine, but it didn't helped. I tried to start
it in standard mode. Suprise.. It worked, but every time I tried to start
it in enhanced mode it didn't worked. 
I started to minimize my configuration. When I uninstalled smartdrc.sys 
It started with enhanced mode. Now it Works well, but when I try to install
smartdrive, enhanced mode will not work. I tried to install smartdrv and that
is what happened:
1) Display didn't work at all.
2) I uninstalled smartdrv
3) enhanced mode didn't work at all after that
4) I started windows with standard mode and ti worked
5) enhanced mode still dead
6) I booted computer many times. No help
7) I started win with standard mode
8) I made some changes. For example I changed the wallpaper.
9) I saved the changes. After that windows started well with enhanced mode.

Now it works, but you can believe thet I would like to use smartdrv. I tried
to use other caches like pctool's PC-CACHE. No help. Windows didn't start at
all with enhanced mode. If I tried to install smartdrive I had to do all the
things 1..9 to get it work again. Now if you have any ideas what's wrong please
tell me.

I have also another problem.. I can't use windows application terminal in
enhanced mode. My mouse is in com1 and cardmodem in port 4. Modem is Ventel
halfcard 2400. When I start terminal in enhanced mode the program says that
com4 is used for dos applications and suggests for me to use another port.
Then it says that no ports available. Is it possible to use terminal in 
enhanced mode?
It works well in standard mode.

One more question: Any good ftp-sites for windows3 ???

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