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From: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Connecting VGA card to NEC Multisync monitor
Message-ID: <5224@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 16:46:20 GMT
References: <7467@shlump.nac.dec.com> <6574@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <6574@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> whelan@uhccux.UUCP (Jerry Whelan) writes:
>
>This is likely to be a familiar sort of message, but here goes:
>
>I've got a 386/25 w/ cache & 4 megs that don't like QEMM 4.2 nor
>Windows/386 (2.01).
>
>Windows/386 runs all windows apps ok, but as soon as I try running one of
>the COMMANDx.PIF files, it dumps out to DOS.  Samething if I try double
>clicking on a normal exe or com file.
>

Windows doesn't seem to like some video emulation modes. Try playing with
the CGA emulation switch on your VGA card (turning emulation off seems 
to help). The "VGA" card that came on our Zenith Z-386 was crap and never
did work right with Windows/386.

tim