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From: markv@hls.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Wyse 286/386 vs Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1991May28.083027.148@hls.com>
Date: 28 May 91 16:30:26 GMT
References: <1112@stewart.UUCP>
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In article <1112@stewart.UUCP>, jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
> 
> Hello.  Does anyone have a Wyse machine working with Windows 3.0?
> I'm trying to use a Wyse pc286 Model 2108, but the keyboard is all
> screwed up in Windows.  Sometimes you have to press a key three or
> four times before it registers, and sometimes the keyboard just locks
> up and all the keyboard lights go on.  Can anyone help?  By the way,
> this is a 102-key enhanced keyboard connected to the Wyse CPU card
> via one of those telephone-style connectors.  There was no such problem
> with Windows 2.x.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -- ...

I have a Wyse 3216 at home. This is a 386 16 Mhz. I can run windows on it, 
but I, too, have problems. They are different, in that the keyboard works
fine with windows, but windows itself is only reliable in real mode. In
either standard or enhanced I get on OK until memory starts being swapped.
Then there is an UAE, and it is shutdown and reboot time. This happens no
matter whether I use Himem or Qemm386 v5.12.

However, the original query was relating the keyboard - when I installed
Win 3.0, it didn't recognise my keyboard ( a 101 enhanced UK style ) and
put me down for US 82 ( or whatever ). I convinced windows that I had a
UK 101 Enh using setup and control panel ( I think ). That seems to work.
I do notice, however, that all the leds occasionally come on briefly - for
no reason that I can figure out.

To sum up, I beleive that Wyse have in the past done their own thing
regarding Keyboard BIOS and BIOS, and that is our problem. So my advice
is to investigate getting an updated Keyboard BIOS and BIOS rom set from
Wyse. I have their number down as (408) 473 1200.

Hope this helps,
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