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From: baugh@potomac.ads.com (Follower of Chaos)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Paradise Autoswitch EGA 350 card and Win 3.0
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.195243.21117@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 23 Feb 91 19:52:43 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington, VA
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I've just gotten Windows 3.0, and have nothing but headaches
trying to install it.  First it did some funky stuff about 3/4's of
the way through the setup program, and I RTFM'ed both the User's Guide
and the Questions and Answers, and of course got to Step 4 in the
Questions and Answers ... Call Microsoft.  Wonderful.  Well I called
them up and try out their wonderful new "answer system"...and of course
I didn't hear anything that solved my problem (it seemed to be all the
same as the Q&A book) So, I tried to get back to a "real" person (but 
pressing 5 on the phone didn't work from some places in the answer system
all you get is a replay of the last thing you heard...)  So, call
back and this time push the "get a real person" button...wait
for 20 minutes on hold (MY phone bill, where's the 800 number!) and
get through to a Tech, who after I dump all the stuff I have (config.sys
which has the 3 lines the setup program put in, same configuration with 
my autoexec.bat, tell them my monitor type, BIOS, etc.)  It ends up that 
he tells me "Award Bios previous to 3.04c can cause intermittant problems 
with Windows 3.0" ....SO 3 more phone calls, $110 bucks for new bios ( version
3.13...which I get sent next day air, so I get on with windows...) and 
of course, put new bios in to try it again....it gets a bit further
through the setup and then of course, crapola.  Damn.  Anybody else
got an idea before I turn my computer into a boat anchor?  We're
talking a machine with 2 run-of-the-mill Segate hard drives (western digital
controler), generic hayes compatable modem (a ZOOM modem),
Paradise Autoswitch EGA 350 card (with the autoselect & autodetect switches
off of course...) generic EGA monitor and two generic Floppy drives.
I've got a new logitech mouse (and have installed both the Windows, Logitech,
drivers and have also tried it without any mouse installed at all...but
same thing) It's a pretty vanilla machine, and I haven't had the slightest 
problem running anything (net software, games, etc).  Windows comes up (well,
starts up otay) but then I get video flakeyness starting at different 
times.  It's unpredictable, sometimes it starts out slowly, i.e. a few 
bits get set to wrong colors...it's hard to describe...it usually happens 
after I try to open up something, say solitare, which will works fine for 
a couple minutes sometimes then blewy!, othertimes blewy! right away.
I can only guess that their is something with the card or monitor I have,
but I can't believe that there wouldn't be a driver for a Paradise EGA card.
I've looked on the Windows supplimental driver disks, and there isn't any 
special driver for Paradise EGA cards, but there are a couple for Paradise
VGA cards.  Anybody out there got any helpful pointers??
I'm tired of throwing money at this thing....
-- 
	Earl D. Baugh Jr.
	Advanced Decision Systems
	Internet : baugh@ads.com