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Does anybody have an Archie Technologies computer? I have a 386-25 with 8 meg
of ram (originally 2). I purchased the machine in 1990 and have upgraded the
BIOS. I am having all sorts of trouble getting Windows 3.1 to run on it in
a stable mode.
 
Problem 1: If I try to load Smartdrv with no parameters I get the message back:
"Error loading USER.EXE" and I am obviously back in DOS. If I tell it to use
only 512K memory for Windows it will allow me to load Windows but it is still
unstable.
 
Without Smartdrv I can get into Windows but still have problems. They tend to
fall into two catagories. The first is a message concerning "invalid true
type fonts". I am using only fonts from major packages: the add on package
from MS and PrintShop Deluxe for Windows. The problem is sporadic. It happens
regularly in Quicken 2.0 but rarely in Word For Windows.
 
I also get a lot of errors in some Windows Programs. Few to none in Notepad
Write, Visual Basic etc. More in Excel and I can not even run Access. The
programs come back with messages such as "Error in " some exe or dll. The
filespec is usually a file from the program I am trying to run although some
time it is Kernel.exe or GDI.exe.
 
I've tried simplifying my config.sys & autoexec.bat to match windows resource
kit recommendations but no change.
 
The few DOS programs I use run like a charm. These are games and they are
the newer memory intensive ones with lots of graphics.
 
So I really think my problem is in windows and probably specific to my
maching. Does anybody out there have an Arche computer who can try to
help?
 
Harry Kamens
Budget Officer
Kent State University Library
Kent, OH  44242
 
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