Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dynasys!ivysoft!tonyl
From: tonyl@ivysoft.UUCP (Y. Tony Lin of Ivysoft)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: QEMM 5.10 and Windows
Summary: Solutions to Windows 3.0 changing colors.
Keywords: QEMM, Windows, problems
Message-ID: <2@ivysoft.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 90 06:32:36 GMT
References: <1990Dec6.200158.14103@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: tonyl@.UUCP (Y. Tony Lin of Ivysoft)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Ivysoft International, Inc.
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In article <1990Dec6.200158.14103@wubios.wustl.edu> derek@wubios.wustl.edu (Derek Morgan) writes:
>I have a strange problem with QEMM 5.10 and Windows. Windows will boot up in
>386 enhanced mode, but the colors will be wrong. There is a shift towards
>yellow and green, so that white is a rather dim yellow-green. Also, the
>writing on the 3-D bars and icons is not visible. Any non-Windows application
>can not be seen (background color=foreground color, I would guess).
>
>If I boot Windows in one of the other modes, everything is fine. The only
>noticeable difference in the way that it boots up is that normally, (w/o QEMM,
>or in real or standard mode), the "please wait"  hourglass appears after the
>WIndows Screen on a black background. With QEMM, a blue screen with a green
>border appears (!), then the puke-yellow screen comes up with the hourglass.
>Even the chess desktop is puke yellow.
>
>Hardware is an IBM PS/2 with VGA. Any help or fellow horror stories would be
>appreciated. Quarterdeck says that this is anew one on them, too.
>

I had the same problem on my PS/2 model P70.  I was able to correct this 
problem by using a different mouse driver.  When I installed the Windows 3.0
I did not have any mouse driver installed but the Windows still see the PS/2
mouse and it worked for several months.  Later I found some other DOS package
such as PC Tools will not work without a mouse driver installed, so I installed
a MOUSE.COM driver -- the problem you described above started.  After digging 
for a while, I use a different mouse.sys in the CONFIG.SYS, the problem went
away.  I have mouse in DOS and Windows, and the problem disappeared. 

I don't have my P70 here, but I recalled the size of the MOUSE.SYS is much
larger than MOUSE.COM.  Also I used DEVICE=MOUSE.SYS /Y to install it to 
himem. 

Hope this work for you and other users.  :-)



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