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From: lchang@udel.edu (Boris Lchang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Mouse may cause Standard and 386 enhanced modes NOT working.
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Date: 7 Apr 91 07:31:33 GMT
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In article <580@tcnz1.tcnz.co.nz> ross@tcnz.co.nz (ross Keatinge) writes:
>In article <91087.100905WALMSLEC@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> WALMSLEC@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Chris Walmsley) writes:
>>I am having a problems getting Windows 3.0 to work in either
>>Standard mode or 386 enhanced mode.
>>
>>The machine is a PS/2 model 70 with 8 megs of extended, running
>>PC-DOS 4.01.  No matter what combination of memory drivers/managers
>>I use, Windows wont go into either Standard or 386 mode.
>
>We had some similar problems. Are you running SHARE.EXE ?
>
> (stuff deleted)
>-- 
>Jifong Chen, Systems Engineer (jifong@tcnz.co.nz)
>Thomas Cook N.Z. Limited, PO Box 24, Auckland CPO, New Zealand, Ph (09)-793920

I have the very same problem with my imsi mouse (which is not fully
compatable with MSmouse), I can never go to standard and 386 enhanced
modes.  I have read a article said about the Windows 3.0 doesn't even
bother to check the COM ports after you load it.  

After 1 week trial and error in smartdrv, batch file, config.sys, etc.
I finally made it to standard and 386 enhanced modes.  The only problem
I concluded and corrected is 'Windows 3.0 can work in Standard and
Enhanced modes only with MS mouse or FULLY compatable mouse'.  Right
now I use windows without mouse, I have to buy a mouse again.  
I think MicroSoft is making this incompatability among others to set
a standard just like the IBM did in '85 to dominate the market.  Then 
I realize why so many software dealers sale mice with Windows3 together.

Did any others have the same experience?

- B. Chang