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- From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross)
- Subject: At My Wit's End With Compatability Question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.160612.14987@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:06:12 GMT
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- Hope somebody out there can shed some light on the following; I'm stumped.
- I had a 286-12MHz, 1Mb-RAM, 40Mb-HDD clone for 3 years. It ran every
- IBM-compatible program I ever tried on it without a problem. This
- includes WordPerfect 4.2 through 5.1, Windows, Norton 6, PC-Tools 6,
- etc. I have a color SVGA card in it with 256K of memory. I believe
- the card is a Prism.
-
- Now I sold the computer to my boss, except that I kept my multisynch
- color-monitor and bought a new monochrome VGA-monitor to go with the
- 286 computer. Everything else is the same, and the programs I had loaded
- still run fine. Two games, Flight and EGA Trek (shareware), also seem to
- work fine on it. So my boss buys Reader Rabbit and Math Blaster for
- his kid, and installs them, and neither one will run. They both just
- lock up the computer.
-
- My boss, believing me to be a computer wizz, has me over for dinner
- and expects me to get the two programs to run and tell him what's
- wrong. I can't for the life of me figure out why they won't run.
- At first I thought it was the mono monitor with color card that
- was fooling the programs. I suppose that is indeed possible. But
- why those particular programs, yet none that I had tried from among
- a dozen programs? Both Reader Rabbit and Math Blaster seem to have
- utility programs to manually set the monitor types, and I ran both,
- but still get only a lockup requiring a reboot when I run the programs.
- Yes, I did re-install each from scratch.
-
- I brought the software home and installed both programs successfully on
- my 386SX mono-VGA laptop, which blew at least part of my theory that
- it was the mono monitor causing a problem. But since the card and
- monitor in his machine may still not be thoroughly compatible, I
- suppose that could still be the problem. HOWEVER: why would this
- lock up the machine requiring a reboot, rather than just run with
- not all the graphics displaying right, as I would have predicted if
- there were a monitor/card problem?
-
- Oh, if it sheds any light, the Reader Rabbit is version 4.0, and Math
- Blaster has no version number but has a release date of 1990.
-
- Please, please send me some suggestions, if you have any, before I
- have to buy the damn system back from my boss and eat crow.
-
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