[Discussion] Corel 4 Install on ECS Problem

[Thomas Clayton]

Dear Jim:

With regard to: Excel and Access working and MS-Publisher not
working; I don't think you can read 'video drivers not working'
from this. Quite simply: they ARE all graphic app.s. They're all
running - or attempting to run - under the MS-Windows environment -
well, IBM's (better) implementation of it - and generally should be
considered 'as equals' in this regard. 

Where things MAY differ is: are you running them all in ONE copy of
that envir. OR each in their OWN seperate envir.. In this latter
case, there COULD be differences within EACH seperate envir. That's
what I'd investigate. Can, eg. MS-Pub - or Corel whatever - work
(run WITHin) one of your other two app.s or does this 'crash them'.


Last thought (contradicting myself here), there MAY be COLOR depth
differences (allowances, restrictions) between the app.s. Corel /
MS-Pub may want (or NOT) greater (lesser) 'bits per pixel' than the
two graphical but data-centric app.s.

'nough for now,

Thomas Clayton



--- jim.scott at scottelectronic.com wrote:

> ** Reply to note from msnyder1 at cfl.rr.com Sun, 06 Aug 2006
> 22:29:35 -0400 
>  
> Hi Mike, 
>  
> I'm beginning to think that it's something to do with the display
> driver (SciTech driver here - which works great on the desktop). 
>  
>  
> Both EXCEL and ACCESS load and work, however MSPUB (another
> graphic program) fails the same way. 
>  
> I've always used EMS=0, and set XMS to max 16M, and DPMI lower
> than the 64M although I don't know what effect it has - if any. 
>  
> I just got done setting the video modes from VGA to up to
> 1600x1200 and still nothing in any of them.  I do like the
> 1280x1024 screen   
> size though! 
>  
> Thanks for the input. 
>  
> Still perplexed... 
>  
> JIM 
>   
>     
> | On 08/06/06 at 02:16 PM, jim.scott at scottelectronic.com said: 
> |    
> |    
> | >I'm in a time crunch - so what have I missed! It looks like it
> should go, 
> | >and has to be some simple thing I've forgotten! <Heavy Sigh>  
> 
> |    
> | It's been a while since I set those up, and Corel 4 never did
> run properly 
> | for me.  You have to change the Win 16 session properties. 
> Among others, 
> | I believe that I set DPMI memory to 64 and both EMS and XMS
> memory to 0.  
> | Perhaps looking at the rest of them will remind you of what you
> did to get 
> | it to work originally. 


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