Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!csn!boulder!tramp.Colorado.EDU!colfelt From: colfelt@news.colorado.edu (COLFELT ANDREW BRINTON W) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Enh Mode Problem... Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 19:38:05 GMT References: <5703@mindlink.bc.ca> Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet) Reply-To: colfelt@tramp.Colorado.EDU Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: tramp.colorado.edu Frank_Murray@mindlink.bc.ca (Frank Murray) writes: >I recently installed Windows 3.0 on one of the 386's in the office. The >machine has 4 megs of extended ram, a 40 meg harddrive with 15 megs free, and a >Hercules Clone video. The problem is that Windows 3.0 will only run in Real or >Standard mode. Windows will not run in Enhanced mode. I have tried >re-installing Windows, but to no avail. >The config.sys is as follows: >files = 30 >buffers = 20 >device = c:\himem.sys >device = c:\dos\ansi.sys >device = c:\dos\smartdrv.sys 1024 512 ... >If I try to force Windows into enhanced mode (win /3) the machine hangs up. I >am using MS-DOS 4.01. >I am currently using Windows 3.0 on my 386 at home in enhanced mode with no >problems! (I have been running Windows 3.0 since it came out) My experience with Windows defaulting to standard mode when Enhanced mode is desired, is that Windows thinks there isn't enough memory to go into Enh. mode. My first answer to your problem would have been to check the amount of memory you give to SmartDrv, but seeing that you have gobs, this shouldn't be the problem. The next thing I would check is the effect of changing Buffers = 20. I've had problems with this value when running SmartDrv...Microsoft told me that when SmartDrv is running Buffers need only be = 10, because SmartDrv itself makes up for the difference. This was a hard fact to swallow being weened from DOS where anything less than 20 was unthinkable, given 2Mb+ of RAM. Try this change on the system you have that does work, and I'll bet you notice a system speed improvement. Let me know how it works out. Andrew colfelt@tramp.colorado.edu