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- From: wheinri@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Werner Heinrich)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: HELP! Windows and ET4000 drivers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.172834.15777@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 17:28:34 GMT
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Informatik
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- HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP!
-
- I'm working on a '486 with DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1.
- My machine is equipped with a "2 the MAX" VGA card holding an ET4000 processor
- with 1MB of display memory and 32768 colors.
-
- Up to now I was running Windows 3.1 with a set of drivers called ts4k-w31,
- dated from 03-01-92, which I got from an anonymous ftp-server, and everything
- worked fine. Then I installed new drivers from a package called et4turbo,
- dated 04-16-92, which I got the same way. After normal installation I rebooted
- Windows and had to face the fact that my screen was totally garbeled.
- Since this happened with all the included drivers, I decided to give up and
- reinstall my old ones. But in spite of all efforts to do this, now also my old
- drivers, which properly worked before, came up with this garbeled screen.
- After some trying I reinstalled Windows and the old drivers from scratch, with
- the same result. Being quite desperate by this time, I reformatted the whole
- disk and backed up everything from the last backup, but even this didn't bring
- things back to work.
-
- The state now is:
- - Windows is running properly in standard mode with all drivers ?!?!
- - Windows is running properly in each mode with its built in VGA driver.
- - Windows doesn't work in 386 mode with both sets of the ET4000 drivers ( the
- screen is garbeled, by which I mean, the lower half is sometimes black,
- sometimes a chaos of colors, the Windows screen is pushed up, so you just
- see the lower half of it on the upper half of the real screen,
- and wrapped around to the right. )
- If you manage to work with this half of the Windows screen and try to start
- the DOS shell, then it tells you
- "Falsche Systemversion. Installieren Sie Windows neu."
- ( Wrong version of the system. Install Windows again. )
- something I don't understand either.
-
- Now I really don't have any idea what to do:
- - I've got the old state of software, so I think things should work as before,
- but it doesn't.
- - I can't imagine it's the hardware, because it works in Windows standard mode,
- and also all the other programs with a built in ET4000 driver work properly
- ( like e.g. my postscript interpreter. )
-
- Because I don't like the Windows VGA driver, and I also don't want to run
- Windows in standard mode on a '486, any ideas what to do would be greatly
- appreciated. If anyone has any idea, please contact me for help or further
- information on my installation ( config.sys, autoexec.bat, ... ? ).
-
- Thanks in advance,
- Werner.
-
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- Werner HEINRICH email: wheinri@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- Department of Computer Science
- Technical University Munich
-