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- From: lin@franklin.ee.umr.edu (Austin Lin)
- Subject: Is it just me? 24X problems on my 386/40...
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:07:30 GMT
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- I just recently sold off my Speedstar Hi-Color card in favor of
- the new Speedstar 24X. While I am happy with the improved
- Windows performance of the card, that happiness has been overshadowed
- by a plethora of system hangs. I run Windows 3.1 under DR DOS 6.0
- with a 80 out of 120 meg's SuperStor'ed on my drive. Since installing
- the 24X, weird things started happening, and they were getting
- weirder and weirder. First there were the hangs every time a
- screen saver came on (either Win 3.1's or After Dark). Then the
- crashes came during WPWin sessions, Terminal sessions (I'm hoping I
- get lucky now...), and every Windows app I have. Things got worse
- when I exited Windows and got back into DOS. Without my touching
- any input devices, the system would give me "Divide by zero" error
- messages at random time intervals, sometimes as fast as several per
- second. Resetting the system did nothing to help this.
-
- My first reaction was to vacuum out all the dust bunnies that was
- practical from my tower case, thinking maybe they were causing
- some freaky connections here and there. That didn't seem to do
- the trick. My next thought was that this was a DR DOS problem,
- but I have found that this is not the case. I borrowed someone's
- MS DOS 5.0 and loaded it onto my system (yes, killing my SuperStor
- partition and causing me to reload EVERYTHING...). The hangs
- still abound in Windows 3.1, although I haven't seen those funky
- error messages at the DOS prompt yet.
-
- None of these things ever happened with my Speedstar Hi-Color
- card, which was happily running in my system (386/40 w/64k cache
- and 8 meg's RAM). If anyone has any suggestions, or even just
- sympathy, I'd appreciate hearing from you...
-
- Austin
- lin@ee.umr.edu
-