Xref: utzoo comp.windows.ms:11926 comp.sys.ibm.pc:55026 comp.windows.ms.programmer:2065 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!ukma!s.ms.uky.edu!randy From: randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: WINDOWS 3.0 enhanced mode problem Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 05:29:13 GMT Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Lines: 36 I cannot run "win /3". If I do so I get the opening screen, and then get dumped to dos. Following that, my floppy disk suffers intermediate errors. Even from dos, if I have tried "win /3" in the past my floppy acts up. This is only solved by a hard re-boot. "win /s" works fine. Absolutly no problem. Floppy works fine. Even worse, two friends of mine have the same hardware setup, and theirs works fine. The only hardware differences are: - They have 2MEG installed by the vender. - I had 1 MEG, and then had three more installed later by a local shop. Near as I can tell, nothing (video bios, etc.) is mapped into RAM. - I have a modem in COM1, and a mouse in COM2. COM3 exists, but has absolutly nothing on it. - They have only a mouse in COM1, and nothing else. I'm about ready to send the machine back to the vendor, which I *DONT* want to do. Does anybody have any bright ideas???? -Randy The rest of my hardware configuration: 4 Meg RAM 386 SX AMI Bios 3.5 inch floppy 40 MEG IDE Hard drive Super VGA card using the vendors driver (same as my friends whose machines work) -- ============================================================================= Never, ever attempt to graduate. They'll make yo do a thesis first. ============================================Randy@ms.uky.edu==================