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- From: atam@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Alexander Tam)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: BIG troubleS in NT
- Message-ID: <183465@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 00:05:42 GMT
- Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View
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- Hi, deb. Hope you still recall who I am. I sent some mail a few weeks ago for
- some questions on NEC CDR-84 and some questions on NT too. I wish you can give
- me some help on the following ones. Thank you very much.
-
-
- I will give my hardware and software configurations on my computer first.
- Hardware: DECpc 433ST, 20MB/128K
- Adaptec 1542B
- Maxtor LXT-340s (total 340MB)
- NEC CDR-84(internal)
- Regular VGA
- Complete Communicator(not for NT, for Windows 3.1 only)
- Software: All of the following are reside in a single partition of 340MB
- - DOS 5.0
- - Windows 3.1
- - Word 2.0, Excel 4.0, Money, etc. (all Windows apps)
-
- The above configuration is what I had before installing NT. Next, I put NT
- on my machine. Installation went smoothly from the beginning to the end.
- No errors and warnings like those posted in this news group ealier. My NT
- is installed successfully. I started to run it and installed Win32 SDK.
- That installation is fine *TOO*. No errors and warnings. So, NT resides in the
- same partition as DOS+Windows+App does. My page file is of 32MB.
-
- Strange things occur from this point onward:
- 1) I tried to build those samples in mstools. By going to the samples directory and I typed makeall, I got the following error on *EACH* sample:
- Error: Cannot find c:\temp\000112ex: no such file or directory
- I forgot the error name and number. It is a compiler error though. Next, I
- do the same mstools installation ONE MORE TIME by going to the CD-ROM drive
- and type setup in mstools directory. This time, after the install, the
- compiler works fine. But I get a bunch of warnings for each sample:
- filename.exe(): warning 0505: No modules extracted from c:\mstools\lib\CRTDLL.LIB
- filename.exe():...............................c:\mstools\lib\LIBC.LIB
- ....
- total 10 to 20 warning messages. Are these warnings generated by the debug
- flag?
-
- 2) After *2* times installation to get Win32 compiler working, I have another
- BIG, BIG problem. I *CANNOT* run Windows app in my hard disk. Not even a
- single one. For each app (e.g. word, excel, etc), I did the following things:
- - from file manager, go to app's directory, click-click in app's file,
- - from ms-dos windows/console, cd to app's directory, type start <app>,
- - setup the applications thru Windows NT setup, let's NT itself search
- for all apps it recognize. Then, click-click on the icon in the
- Applicatin group.
- All the above method fails. All I get is the mouse pointer changes to a
- hour-glass and rapidly changes back to a mouse pointer. *NOTHING* happens.
- I *CANNOT* even run DOS apps too. I cd to DOS directory in dos windows and
- type start edit. Same, nothing happens. I just *CANNOT* run nothing in my
- c: drive EXCEPT those in c:\mstools and c:\winnt. I already set my path to
- include c:\winword and c:\excel for testing. Well, I can run all, I think,
- exe files in the CD-ROM. However, WHY I CANNOT EXECUTE ANY OTHER THINGS?!
- I ALREADY PUT WOWEXEC.EXE,the 16-bit windows subsystem, INTO STARTUP GROUP.
- STILL, NOTHING HAPPENS BUT THE HOUR-GLASS APPEARS IN 1/10 SECOND. You may
- tell me that I may not be able to run win & dos app now. BUT, IF YOU TAKE A
- LOOK AT THE OCTOBER ISSUE OF WINDOWS MAGAZINE, THEY SHOWS A PICTURE THAT
- T H E I R MACHINE IS RUNNING dos\edit, excel, etc. WHY NOT ME? I GET THE
- SAME WIN32 SDK AS THEY DID.
-
- Since my NT is installed and running, I say NT itself is running but not those
- app it supports, I think it is not a hardware problem.
-
- Any help is appreciated, especially from Microsoft like Alistair. Thank you
- very much.
-
- Alex
- atam@eng.pyramid.com
-