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Article #1379Re: Re-boot required before starting Windows
From: ewin... WinkMan
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 04:33
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 04:33
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In article <stevesng....@teleport.com>, stev...@teleport.com says... > >Every version of the shareware edition that I have tried (1.0, 1.1, and 1.2) >has the same effect on my computer. After a game of Descent (played in DOS), >I try to start Windows 3.1, and it doesn't work. A lot of what looks like hex >scrolls down the screen and everything locks up. Only solution is to hit the >reset button. > >My hardware is a 486DX33 VLB, Hercules Dynamite Power VL w/2MB, PA Studio 16 >sound card. I have followed the directions for my Dynamite card and excluded >certain areas of memory when loading EMM386. Descent works great on this >system, it is just annoying to have to reset everything to get back to work. What do your config.sys and autoexec.bat files look like? Checked for viruses lately? I've never run into this before. Try a basic config.sys and autoexec.bat: himem.sys, emm386.exe (RAM/NOEMS), and no extra TSR's (just smartdrv.exe and mouse.exe). What exactly happens when you enter "win"? Any error messages? Are you running Descent from a menu program?
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!emerald.oz.net!news From: ewin...@oz.net (WinkMan) Newsgroups: alt.games.descent Subject: Re: Re-boot required before starting Windows Date: 23 Mar 1995 04:33:32 GMT Organization: The SenseMedia Network, http://sensemedia.net/, in...@sensemedia.net Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3kqtms$2fm@emerald.oz.net> References: <stevesng.8.0084C4EB@teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ewinkley.oz.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit