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From: sysnett@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Tseng 4000 Win3 enhanced mode driver bug?
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.172819.9992@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Date: 16 Apr 91 07:28:18 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.144613.9981@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
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I tried to reply using mail, but it bounced with 'Unknown user', so I'll post
the reply here.  In a mail message to me, quimby@rpi.edu says -

>We've been trying to run a BOCA card w/ Tseng 4000 chipset in 256
>color mode without much success.  It seems to run ok, until you
>pop a couple of windows up (paintbrush,help,index), then it
>goes to lunch with App errors.  

Same symptoms as most others I've had a reply from.

>The Boca people suggested that maybe possibly it was the machine's
>BIOS, so I'm going to try it in a known good (Everex) machine sometime
>this week.  In the meanwhile we run in 16 color mode.

You might want to report that many others with different 386 PCs are also
having the same problem with Tseng 4000 drivers in 256 color mode.  Maybe they
can "duplicate" the problem or provide an updated set of Windows 3 drivers.

-- 
Tony Nicholson, Network Group,          | E-mail: sysnett@cc.newcastle.EDU.AU
Computing Services, McMullin Building, Uni of Newcastle, NSW, 2308, AUSTRALIA