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From: sarnold@bgsuvax.UUCP (G. Steve Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: HELP! WD7000 + 386Enh = CRASH!!!
Message-ID: <7274@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 91 17:26:22 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.013413.5732@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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From article <1991Mar27.013413.5732@wpi.WPI.EDU>, by acoolidg@wpi.WPI.EDU (Aaron P Coolidge):
> 
> 	Help! I just got a WD7000 SCSI controler. Now, my win3 will not run
> in 386 enhanced mode- it gets to the banner, and then i get the "C:\"
> prompt back! 
> 	I had been running windows in 386enh for almost 6 months with my old
> controler/drive, so I don't believe it's the machine.
>

     I don't know how moch stock you want to put in my response, as I don't
have a lot of experience with hardware yet, but I had a similar problem with
windows when (during a recent hard drive cleaning up and compacting session)
I deleted all of the extranneous (sp?) .FON (windows) fonts that I had not been 
using since I got ATM (wonderful!). Anyway, Apparently I managed to delete the
'system' font, or whatever it is that windows 3 uses as a default to the screen.
The point is that apparently windows started to boot, and got to where it was 
supposed to load all of the cool environment stuff (BMP's, etc..) and saw that
it couldn't find the system font (having been deleted). Unable to utilize all
of windows enhanced features, windows simply dumps you back to the dos prompt.

      The solution? I had just made a hard drive backup, so I simply restored 
the necessary files. However I understand that booting up in real mode and 
running setup to change whatever system drivers or parameters you
need to is really the way to go.

      Hope this helps...

      Steve.   (sarnold@andy.bgsu.edu)