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Article #14199dr dos, windows and trident svga drivers
From: mark andrew denner
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1992 21:39
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1992 21:39
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After seeing rave reviews of dr-dos in these groups, i went out and bought myself version 6.0. although I was impressed with its integrated system (especially DiskMax and Memmax) i have one serious gripe: since loading dr dos, i can't get windows to run with my 256c TVGA drivers. whenever i'd start windows, all i'd get is the initial logo, and then a flash (brief) of what might have been my wallpaper. I know its the driver, because after I went back and reinstalled windows from the ground up, it worked using vga drivers until i ran setup again and changed the drivers to the manufacturer-included svga drivers. then, (whoops, i hate vi-- eve is much better for us illiterates) C C CRASH (with windows, helpful as ever, giving me absolutely no error messages . I tried everything, short of replacing dr dos with ms dos (a little tricky with a compressed drive). even under himem.sys and smart drive, with absolutely no parameters and no emm386.sys messing with the umbs, i couldn't get windows to run with my svga drivers. i am almost certain it's because dr-dros has done something to my video memory, or mayber (just maybe) this is one area where sstor isn't completely compatible with windows (i got this feeling when once, just once, i got an error statement out of windows to the effect that one of my tvga .386 files was corrupt: is it possible that when loading drivers windows somehow bypasses the sstor driver?) anyway, i would be SO grateful if someone on the would send me some means of help. being somewhat short-sighted, i loaded dr dos before i sent off the product registration card, which means i'll have to wait a bit before calling digital research. HELP, please D D D D ro
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1054ae,ef6ab8d5ac71e9d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1054ae,public X-Google-Thread: 107cbb,ef6ab8d5ac71e9d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid107cbb,public X-Google-Thread: 1106e2,ef6ab8d5ac71e9d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1106e2,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-05 15:25:01 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!silver!madenner From: madenner@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mark andrew denner) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.msdos.apps,bit.listserv.win3-l Subject: dr dos, windows and trident svga drivers Summary: can't get windows to run with tvga drivers after installing drdos6.0 Keywords: svga,trident,windows,dr dos,memory,uma Message-ID: <madenner.694647557@silver> Date: 5 Jan 92 21:39:17 GMT Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Lines: 35 Nntp-Posting-Host: silver.ucs.indiana.edu