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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Re: Need help w/ Win3.1 upgrade
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.184658.12276@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 18:46:58 GMT
- References: <BxGF7G.7J3@javelin.sim.es.com> <BxIEvM.Ip8@javelin.sim.es.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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- In <BxIEvM.Ip8@javelin.sim.es.com> bgeer@javelin.sim.es.com (Bob Geer) writes:
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- >bgeer@javelin.sim.es.com (Bob Geer) writes:
- >>My Win3.0 installation works fine, but my Win3.1 upgrade randomly
- >>halts w/ a white-on-blue "system halted parity errors" message
- >>onscreen. I have re-loaded my Win3.0 & it runs fine even when
- >>stressed with something like 3 rows of icons worth of programs
- >>started, incl. lots of graphics display programs. I re-upgraded my
- >>Win3.1 upgrade & get more parity error system halts. Re-upgrading
- >>with a friend's Win3.1 disks does the same thing.
-
- >>I have low-level formatted my disk, have plenty of disk space, run all
- >>the diagnostics I have -- DiskManager that came with my Seagate disk.
- >>(I don't have a copy of CheckIt yet, unfortunately.)
-
- >Corrected info:
-
- >motherboard: DTK 386-20 "FastET20" w/ 1 meg on board
- >RAM board: DTK PEI-301 32-bit bus w/ 8 meg 80ns.
- >disk cont: DTC 7287 RLL Winchester & floppy cont.
- >disks: 2 277-r Seagate 62 meg.
- >video: ATI VGA Wonder w/ 512k (I have 3.1 drivers)
-
- >Please help if you can...it's driving me crazy. Bob
-
- Windows 3.1 is harder on your memory and system timing than Windows
- 3.0. The fact that one of them works is NOT an indication that
- everything is ok for the other one. If you can, try adding memory
- wait-states on the motherboard and see if the problem goes away (yes,
- it will run slower).
-
- The parity error is, of course, complaining that your memory is
- generating errors (which usually is the result of marginal memory not
- keeping up with the necessary system timing).
-
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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