Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bcrka451!cadnews
From: bwilson@bnr.ca (Robert Wilson 1595547)
Subject: re: Paint and Cal crashing
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.135109.9237@bnr.ca>
Sender: bwilson@bcrka296
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 90 13:51:09 GMT

> Has anyone experienced a problem with Windows paintbrush and calendar
> giving an unrecoverable error running in standard mode (they work fine
> in real mode).  I am experiencing this problem on a 286 machine with
> 640K base & 1920K extended (2M total).  I'm using the Himem.sys from 
> windows.  Other apps run fine.  Is there a solution to this problem?
                            
Sounds familiar.  I posted a similar plea a few weeks ago, though I
have reason to believe that my posts are not getting out properly.

Same problem.  AT clone, 2M, AMI bios.  Paintbrush crashes
in standard mode with 'Unrecoverable application error'.  OK in real mode.
Fortunately I stumbled across a workaround.  My machine operates
at 8 MHz and 12 MHz.  Paintbrush will NOT crash at 8 MHz on my
machine.  

Likewise, all other applications run properly at 12 MHz.

I'm still puzzled, but I can live with paintbrush at 8 MHz.

HTH...