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- Subject: Re: Windows crash
- Message-ID: <Michel.Davidoff.133.0@sonoma.edu>
- From: Michel.Davidoff@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
- Date: 6 Nov 92 07:40:32 PST
- References: <Bx9Kyo.Isu@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: Sonoma state university
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- In article <Bx9Kyo.Isu@acsu.buffalo.edu> camdna@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Darren Natale) writes:
- >Subject: Windows crash
- >From: camdna@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Darren Natale)
- >Date: 5 Nov 92 22:25:00 GMT
- >I've reached my wit's end on this, so I appeal to the collective wisdom
- >of the net...
- >
- >I have been experiencing some rather maddening difficulties running DOS
- >programs under Windows. I'll describe just two (for now):
- >
- > I have been using a DOS file manager included with the old Word
- >Perfect Library utilities. If I try to access the "windows" directory, the
- >program crashes. Interestingly, this is the only directory access that will
- >result in a crash--in other words, the file manager program will successfully
- >navigate through every directory (except windows) without incident. Also,
- >the program crash only occurs when the FM is run from windows--if I exit
- >windows and run the program from DOS, it works completely fine. I don't suspect
- >the problem is with the PIF settings, since the same settings are used under
- >the same conditions on other computers without any problem--it is definitely
- >computer-specific.
- > The only difference between this and other computers I can think of
- >that might explain the problem is that the crash-happy computer uses a SCSI
- >drive. We recently upgraded to Windows 3.1 in the hope that the double-buffering
- >capacity of SMARTDRIVE might alleviate the problem, but it did not. I have
- >also suspected a conflict in memory with a video or network board, but
- >EMMExcluding A000-EFFF in the [386Enh] section of system.ini had no effect.
- > Nothing I've tried has prevented the program from hanging. This brings
- >me to the second problem--when the program hangs, I had hoped that the local
- >reboot feature of Windows 3.1 would at least allow the program to go down
- >gracefully, but again it's no go. If the program hangs and I <Ctrl>-<Alt>-Del,
- >Windows will capture the warm boot as it is supposed to. But when I press
- ><Enter> to exit the crashed program, I'm returned to the program instead of to
- >the Windows session. A second attempt at this same sequence of steps is
- >successful about 25% of the time--the other 75% the computer hangs with both the
- >video gone awry (either blanks, writes smiley faces to the screen in a mock
- >C:\ prompt, or does what can best be described as "the wave") and the keyboard
- >locked.
- >
- >The system:
- > CompuAdd 333
- > 16 MB RAM
- > Phoenix BIOS 1989
- > SCSI hard drive
- > DOS 5.0
- > Windows 3.1
- > ATI Graphics Ultra
- > Grey-Scale card, Internet card, probably others I don't know about
- > several SCSI cards for Tape drive, CD-ROM, HP ScanJet
- >
- >Maybe there's just too much sh*t on it? :)
- >
- >Thanks for any insights you may have.
- >
- >DN
- >
- In your config.sys are you excluding the card address?
- I would also try to exclude the video address.
- Have you tried to run some utilities that will check for any conflicts in
- IRQ, Memory Etc ?
-
- Thank You
- Michel Davidoff
- E-Mail Michel.Davidoff@Sonoma.edu
-