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- From: hirayama@sumax.seattleu.edu (Pat Hirayama)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Problems with T2200SX running Windows 3.1 off Novell 386 LAN
- Message-ID: <1it2e8INNqlc@sumax.seattleu.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 08:12:56 GMT
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- Greetings, NetUsers!
-
- I am having some difficulties with one of my user setups. The
- workstation is a Toshiba T2200SX laptop computer with 6 mb of RAM
- running Toshiba DOS v5.00 and connecting to a 386 v3.11 file server
- via an external Xircom parallel port 10-Base-T Ethernet adapter. They
- are running Microsoft Windows 3.1 with SaberMenus 2.0 for Windows as
- the shell. The problems are that this setup is not stable: DOS
- applications (mostly WordPerfect) crash with General Protection Fault
- messages, while Windows-based applications (mostly cc:Mail for Windows
- 1.11) crash with Application Errors. On occasion, the shell (SMENU)
- fails with an Application Error as well. This machine is running ODI
- Workstation shells, and the mouse is connected to the DB-9 serial port
- since the mouse port is dead.
-
- Here's what has been already tried:
- * dealing with MS tech support --> they said to call Toshiba.
- * dealing with Toshiba tech support.
- * replaced EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.SYS with newer
- ones from Toshiba: still crashes.
- * dealing with Xircom tech support
- * replaced ODI drivers with updated ones: still crashes.
- * tried running Xircom adapter off a desktop model: no problem.
- * tried running in standard mode: still crashes.
- * tried running with Program Manager as shell: still crashes.
- * tried running with permanent swapfile on local C: disk: ditto.
- * tried running with temporary swapfile on LAN drive: ditto.
- * tried running Toshiba without external monitor: ditto.
-
- Anyway, I'm at wits' end. Has anyone out there successfully gotten
- the above to work? Or something similar to it? Please respond by
- e-mail or posting. Thank you.
-
- -pat
-
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- Pat Hirayama * Systems Administrator * Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- hirayama@seattleu.edu * phirayam@cclink.fhcrc.org * (206) 667-5256
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