Date:	Wed, 15 Mar 2000 01:18:10 -0800
From:	"Marc D. Williams" <marcdw AT flash DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: DR-DOS and WFW311
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 05:18:37PM +0100, Matthias Paul wrote:
>
> Hm, this could well be a problem with your video drivers rather
> than a DOS related problem. At least at times of Windows 3 I
> encountered such fullscreen/windowed mode problem with many SVGA 
> video card drivers (especially Video7 and S3).

Probably so. It was a Diamond SpeedStar64 with Cirrus 5434 chipset and 2MB
running at 1024x768x32K colors at least.
I didn't think about a driver conflict. I could've then done some
testing with the generic svga drivers in WfW.
Thanks for the heads-up.

> In the case you would use this combination again in the future:
> Does the problem also happen when running on MS-DOS 6.22 instead of
> DR-DOS 7.0x. Are you using the new FILESHIGH or FCBSHIGH directives?
> Is 32-bit disk access and/or file access enabled in WfW?
> 
DOS 6.22 was removed pretty quickly but no I don't remember its
boxes locking up.
FILESHIGH I may have tried but not FCBSHIGH.
32-bit file access but no disk access, apparently it wasn't compatible
with the 600MB Quantum drive.

As soon as I get a 72-pin SIMM for the 486 I'll give it a shot
again. I now have a 1.6GB WD drive available and also a generic
ET4000 video card so I can test both cards for driver problems.
If get impatient I'll just dust off the 386 and install on that
again which still has all of its RAM I believe.

Marc

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