Strange exit in windows3.1

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From: damien lee
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 23:22

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I have just purchased windows3.1 and have noticed some very strange
behaviour....I'll be working away (not playing around too much) when all of a
sudden the screen will go blank with the keyboard only responding to
ALT+CTRL+DEL! Or, just as bizzare(sp?), the DOS prompt will appear. This
can be most annoying especially when I loose valuable work not saved. It seems
that windows has "logged" me out for no apparent reason. I have an AMD386-40
chip with an ET4000 Tseng graphics card running in 1024x768 mode.
To prove that I'm not hitting any hot key or the like as I quickly do this
and that in windows, I enabled the screen saver and left windows up over night.
The next morning windows had again returned me to the DOS prompt. Does
anyone have any idea for this most annoying problem? Something to do with
drivers or software/hardware compatiblity or already resident programs?

Thanks in advance....

dal@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au

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From: dal@hannibal.ee.mu.OZ.AU (damien lee)
Subject: Strange exit in windows3.1
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Followup-To: dal@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Damien Lee)
Summary: exit in windows3.1 
Keywords: exit windows3.1 
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Organization: Electrical and Electronic - University of Melbourne 
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 23:22:16 GMT
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