🚀 go-pugleaf

Gates was wrong. It arrived a 11:30AM 8-)

I can NOT get past the 93% second diskette setup mode where win 3.1
goes from DOS setup to windows setup. 

All I get is:

   Standard Mode: Fault in MS-DOS extender
   EC=0000 CS=0053 IP=232F ...

Naturally, there's not enough 3.1 to run in real or enchanced mode.
The trouble-shooting sections have no answer.

I've tried going from no config.sys or autoexec.bat files to my normal
ones w/o success in standard mode. I've tried both the original himem.sys
and emm386 programs and the "updated" ones posted to many BBSs.

This is on a Microgeneration 486-33 ETEQ-motherboard w/Mr. Bio and 
16Mb ram (and currently Windows 3.0a with MPC extentions).

I went back and un-tarred my 3.0 backup and noticed that 3.0 gives me
a standard mode abort message of:

   Protected-mode violation;
   try running in real mode.

This, again with both max and minimum config.sys and autoexec.bat files.

So, I reloaded DOS 5.0 from the distribution disks and reloaded the
original 3.0 diskettes, and still get the protected mode violations.

Last time I can remember having run in standard mode OK was with DOS 3.1.

Help!  Any body got a hint? MS's help line is BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!