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In article <nan.659896529@phobos> nan@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Nan Zou ) writes:
>I've had nothing but problems since I began using windows. After I install the
>Orchid Pro II 1024x768x256 drivers, windows tells me 386 protection error, and
>I have to reboot everytime. So I'll just use standard mode until I figure the
>problem out.

I know that Orchid has upgraded their windows 3.0 driver since I bought my
Pro II...  call their BBS and download the latest driver (if you dont have
the #, call the # on the back of the manual and ask for it)...  also, you
might try posting about the problem on their bbs...

>Last night, before I used windows, I did a 'dir' and saw I have about 38 meg 
>left on my hard disk. Then I went into windows and changed the setup. Upon exit
>I discover now I only had 22 meg!? It seems that windows wrote a big file on my
>hard disk. After searching the whole drive I found nothing was added. So I went
>to Norton File Size, and it reports 48,949,248 occupied by 1768 files, drive C:
>has 85,106,688 capacity, and 23,947,264 was left. Now wait a minute, these num
>bers don't add up, if I have 46 meg used up and 83 meg total, it should leave
>me about 38 meg, which is what it should be. It seems that there's an invisible
>file that take up 16 meg. Everything else runs fine. But I can't figure out why
>I lost 16 meg after using windows.
>
>The machine is a 25 Mhz 386 with 4 megs of RAM, the hard disk is a 83M IDE.

You might be having this problem if you exit windows abnormally (resetting
the machine during a windows session, etc...)  it may be that the temporary
swap file isn't getting erased (it's a hidden file, so it wouldnt be
reported by a dir)... if you cant find it, do a chkdsk /f to see if you've
lost any clusters, and just restore and delete the files...  if the problem
is happening even if you exit normally, I dont know, but you should set
up a permanent swap file for better performance anyway...

>
>As a sidenote, every time I boot up I get a message "WARNIGN: share should be 
>loaded for large media". But I've already loaded share in my autoexec. Could
>this be related to my disk space problem? I would greatly appreciate any help.
>
>						Nan

ignore the share message, it's Dos 4.01's conservative message that 
automatically pops up when you have a larger capacity HD.. if you are't 
actually running a network, you shouldn't worry about it... 

hope this helped...