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- From: hal@osf.org (Hal Lichtin)
- Subject: DOS Prompt Crashes System
- Message-ID: <HAL.92Sep14094743@serverx.osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: hal@osf.org (Hal Lichtin)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- Date: 14 Sep 92 09:47:43
- Lines: 42
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- Before I try a complete reinstallation, maybe someone can give a few
- pointers....
-
- Whenever I run the DOS prompt from Windows, eventually the system
- freezes and refuses to accept any further keyboard or mouse input.
- Plain DOS works fine. Plain Windows works fine. Just DOS from
- Windows doesn't. Sometimes it happens immediately. Sometimes it
- takes a while. It can freeze at the prompt level, within a DOS
- command, or an application. It doesn't seem to matter whether DOS is
- full screen or in a window.
-
- I'm running Win3.1 on DOS 5.0. The System is a no-name 386 with 40MHz
- AMD chip and 4 Meg 70NS memory, 64K 25NS chache, 5/5/91 AMI BIOS,
- Symphony chip set, 120 Meg WD HD, and a 512K Trident 9000A generic
- video board. Configuration is pretty much plain vanilla. I run
- HIMEM, DOS HIGH, SMARTDRV and a mouse using the mouse.com that comes
- with 3.1. I do not have any other TSRs. I use the 800x600X16
- standard windows SVGA driver. My DOS shell is COMMAND.COM. I
- normally use windows' 32-bit disk access.
-
- I've tried a number of tactics to no avail, including turning off
- 32-bit disk access, upping the COMMAND.COM environment to 1024,
- switching mouse drivers, installing WIN31B version of the 800x600x16
- driver available from Trident's BBS (and then reinstalling the Windows
- standard SVGA driver from the distribution disk), upping the BIOS
- memory wait states, running the bus at 8 MHZ (it was set for 10),
- fiddling with the stacks count (no difference between 9,256 and 0,0).
- I haven't yet tried running at another resolution. But I REALLY want
- to run at 800X600.
-
- I've looked pretty hard at the Windows Resource Kit and found no help.
- (Did you know that Winows never crashes, at least there is no "crash"
- entry in the WRK index :-).
-
- Please send me mail. I'll post the winning entry, if there is one,
- and any other relevant responses.
- --
-
-
- Hal Lichtin
- Open Software Foundation
- hal@osf.org (617) 621-8809
-