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- From: ahmad@norooz.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Ahmad Alavi)
- Subject: Re: HELP! 256 color for Windows 3.1???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.143336.2041@msdhsv.ingr.com>
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- References: <1992Aug7.144952.27290@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> <1992Aug10.144652.22301@exu.ericsson.se> <167b60INNk4o@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:33:36 GMT
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- In article <167b60INNk4o@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, brettw@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett D. Watson) writes:
- |> exubrst@exu.ericsson.se (Brad Steele) writes:
- |>
- |> >In article 27290@awdprime.austin.ibm.com, ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach) writes:
- |> >>...I want to get 256 color in Windows..
- |> >>
- |> >>...Windows won't open. I get the opening "welcome" screen and then a
- |> >>blank, black screen that hangs.
- |> >>
- |> >>...The only thing I can think of is that I need to redefine things
- |> >>so I have 512K instead of 256K for video memory.
- |> >>
- |> >>Ken
- |>
- |> >Maybe you're selecting too high a resolution for the amount of memory you do have.
- |>
- |> I'd almost bet on it! I was trying to get a card working in my
- |> machine that I was TOLD had 1M on board, when in fact it had only
- |> 512K. I kept selecting modes that weren't possible with 512K and I
- |> got the banner, then the cursor at the top left, then back to DOS. My
- |> setup program got screwed so that I actually had to edit system.ini
- |> with a text editor to fill in the correct drivers and load windows.
- |>
- |> -=- Brett
- |> --
- |> Brett Watson, 915 Calflin Rd. Manhattan, KS 66502, (913) 776-5951
- |> Technical Support Programmer, Farrell Library, KSU, (913) 532-7427
- |> ==================================================================
- |> brettw@matt.ksu.ksu.edu | brettw@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu
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- I do not agree. I have a 1MB card (Trident) and still have the same problem.
- I can use Trident W3.0 disk and install 800X600 256 color driver. But
- if I use any 256 color from windows 3.1 setup I get the blank screen.
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