Problem with Windows 3.0's 386 Enhanced Mode

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From: Tane' Tachyon
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 1990 01:53

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[I'm posting this for a friend; please reply to him at
 midnight@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us ]
 
I have a 16MHz Zenith 386 with two meg and a Video Seven VEGA VGA.
I just installed Windows and am having trouble running in 386
Enhanced mode:  it comes up OK, but the display is garbled.
 
Symptoms are the opening screen looks fine, then it switches to a
small flickery version, then it puts some (what looks like)
character mode crud on the screen, then it blanks.  Moving the
mouse or pressing Alt-F4 causes white flicker.
 
Standard mode works fine, but enhanced mode is what I got Windows
for!  Is the problem in the Zenith, the VEGA card (the flicker
looks suspiciously like its 800x600 mode), or ???

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From: tachyon@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Tane' Tachyon)
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Subject: Problem with Windows 3.0's 386 Enhanced Mode
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Date: 23 Dec 90 01:53:47 GMT
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