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From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Couldn't run in 386 enhanced after installing PD II drv
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Date: 20 Dec 90 18:39:49 GMT
References: <1990Dec19.233115.28092@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
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In article <1990Dec19.233115.28092@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>, nan@math.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
%% 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

You simply have a DEBUG version of Windows, probably dated December 1989.
Get a normal one. All precited errors will effectively disappear.
-- 
Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX