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In article <madenner.694647557@silver> madenner@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mark andrew denner) writes:
>
>	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,
>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 don't know about TVGA drivers, and I haven't loaded SSTOR, but I can run
Windows in 386 Enhanced mode just fine with DR DOS 6.0.
I had problems similar to what you are describing when I was using MS DOS 5.0.
Please try some things and give us (Usenet users) some more information 
about your configuration.

1:  What CPU are you using?  8088, 80286, 80386, 80486?
2:  Which mode of Windows are you trying to run?
	Try with all 3 modes (if 386) and see if the symptoms change.
3:  MAKE SURE YOU *DO NOT* HAVE A PERMANENT WINDOW SWAP FILE ON YOUR
    COMPRESSED DRIVE.
4:  Check your CONFIG.SYS file for EMM386.SYS (or equivalent) and make
    sure you don't have a /I= parameter.  There are also other
	parameters that relax the reserved memory checking.
5:  Type MEM/A/P (or MEM/a > output.fil) and try to see if you are
	using one section of memory for both TVGA and Windows.
6:  Are you using any 3rd party memory managers? (QEMM, etc)
    If you have access to Quarterdeck's Manifest program use that to
	check out your memory areas.

The version of SSTOR that comes bundled with DR DOS is designed to work
with only DR DOS, however I remember reading a post a couple of weeks
ago from someone who bought DR DOS just for SSTOR and uses MS DOS.
Try putting a line for your SSTOR device driver in a bootable MS DOS floppy 
CONFIG.SYS file (referencing the C: drive for the driver) and see if 
SSTOR works when booting MS DOS.

Also, you may want to check with your VGA card manufacturer and see if
there are any known incompatibilities.

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