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From: nan@math.ksu.edu (Nan Zou)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Couldn't run in 386 enhanced after installing PD II drv
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Date: 19 Dec 90 23:31:15 GMT
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I asked this question awhile back and haven't had too many answers to it.
Let me state my problem first. I have a 25 Mhz 386 with 4 Meg of RAM, AMI bios,
running DOS 4.01, an Orchid ProDesigner II video card with 1 Meg, I've been 
having a lot of trouble installing the extented video drivers provided by
Orchid, my problem is, after I install ANY driver, whether 640x350 mono or
1024x768x256, windows gives me a 386 protection error and I have to reboot. 
After that I can only run in standard mode, but that's not without its problems
Most popular software like IconDraw, Wingif, Wintris, Screan Peace, HP Calculat
or all give unrecoverable application error and crash windows. I have to run
them in real mode. WinQVT is about the only program that does not crash windows
but the font is too small and I have problems with backgroud transfer(another 
story). I assume these software are well-behaved since no one else seems to com
plain. And I assume the drivers are ok too, again, other owners of the Pro II
don't seem to complain. The error occur on every single driver, this leads me
to believe that there is some intrinsic conflict between my card and windows.

I discover when I click on Prog Manager-Help-About, my version of windows is
3.00.52, while all my friends have 3.0, also I don't have the item of Free
System resources. Does any one else have this version. And could this be
causing all the problems? Thanks for your help.

						     Nan