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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Continuing problems with Win 3.1. HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.212434.14794@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- From: jdcarmack@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
- Date: 1 Jan 93 21:24:34 -0500
- Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- References: <78824@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"
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- >. Now I _can_ run DOS apps, but the system is very unstable:
- > Telix 3.2 for DOS hang up while running thru Windows and hang the entire system
- > as well... O.K. netlanders, I am bummed! Any ideas??? I will appreciate any
- > input on the subject... I am suspecting that for some reason Win was unstable
- > to begin with and memory management has little or nothing to do with it...but
- > I am willing to give any wild guess/idea a shot... I am using a 486DX33 w/
- > 4 MB mem and a Trident SVGA 1MB card....
- > Thanx in advance...
-
- I have a similar system: 486DX33 w/8 M and Triden 8900C. Telix 3.15 used
- to hang my system occasionally. Actually, it was hanging my mouse so that
- I could not point and click at anything. God forbid if I tried to switch
- applications. I've noticed several comm packages do that. So, I switched
- to WinQVT and TeleMate. WinQVT has given me NO problems, and cleared up
- several that my old DOS Kermit package was giving me. Telemate is not
- really a Windows program, but it is Windows-aware. It hung my mouse
- once, and that was when I was playing around with memory anyways.
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- I've never used QEMM, so I can't tell you anything about it, or what
- could have been wrong before. It sounds like you _could_ have problems
- with your memory chips, but I would doubt that. If the DOS apps you are
- having problems with are comm programs, I'd advise you to play around with
- the PIF and avoid switching apps while using them. Or, try another
- package.
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- If it's not a comm program, then I suspect it is something entirely
- different. You should take out ALL drivers, TSR's, etc., and bring
- up your system, adding one at a time. When you can replicate the
- problem, that's when you know at least one of the driver/TSR's that
- isn't working with the others.
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