Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!milton!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!math.ksu.edu!nan From: nan@math.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Two NEW? Windows bugs? Message-ID: <1991Feb13.051654.24509@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: 13 Feb 91 05:16:54 GMT References: <12388.27b703d0@ecs.umass.edu> Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 31 daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst) writes: >The nasty bug: >I try loading in a 1024x768x256 bmp file as wallpaper, and get a UAE for >Control Panel. If I try again, C Panel comes up with funny colors, and will >give another UAE if I mess with the wallpaper. The background colors are also >messed up now. I try once more, but this time to select a smaller bmp that >does work, and PROGRAM MANAGER gives me a UAE and disappears. Now I'm >basically unable to do anything, and have to reboot (Any keystrokes/mouse >clicks give me the "buffer full" beep) The first time this happened, I was >no longer able to boot off my hard disk, and had to reformat (sys'ing it didn't >work). The second time I saw this, no damage was done to the hard disk. I >think the first time, SHARE might not have been loaded in, though (It is a >200MB hard disk as one partition) which might have caused problems. >Has anyone gotten a 1024x768x256 bmp to work as wallpaper? The bmp I used was >converted from a gif file of the same specs, and works fine in paintbrush and >WinGIF. I also couldn't load a 1024x768x256 .bmp as wallpaper in enhanced mode, I could load it in standard mode though. And 800x600x256 worked fine in enhanced mode. This might have something to do with momory allocation, but I have 4 Meg + 4 Meg swap so theorectally there shouldn't be a problem. Lets hear it from someone who has successfully used 1024x768x256 .bmp as wallpaper in enhanced mode. -- Nan Zou | Bitnet : nan@ksuvm Kansas State University | Internet: nan@math.ksu.edu #include | nan@phobos.cis.ksu.edu