I did some enhancements to my PC recently, and its way of thanking me was
to start GPF'ing all over the place in Windows (Windows for Workgroups
3.11, BTW). No rhyme or reason that I've been able to figure out. I hope
somebody can pick up a clue here as to what might be the problem so I can
avoid having to do a "Windows meltdown" (reinstalling Windows and all
apps).
Here's the original configuration;
Hardware; TI (Cyrix?) 486SLC/40, 8 megs RAM (8-1 meg), Oak VGA card, AMI
BIOS, Combo Floppy, Colorado 250 Tape Backup running off floppy controller, 2
HDs on primary controller, 1 HD and a 2x IDE CD-ROM running off a GSI Model
21 controller in secondary mode.
Software: MS-DOS 6.22, WFWG 3.11, MS Office 4.2, a shareware enhancement
called "Plug-In", Internet Access (Internet Explorer 3 with dialer, Netscape,
Pegasus Mail, Teraterm Telnet, Opera), Stiletto Toolbar, various other stuff.
Here's what I changed;
Replaced 4 1-meg SIMMS with 4-meg SIMMS (total 20 megs);
Replaced Colorado 250 with a 350;
Replaced Oak VGA Card with Trident SVGA, used Trident's generic drivers
for the chip on the card.
It's been a Windows mine field ever since. I don't know of a single program
that hasn't blown up at least once. Occasionally it behaves itself for
awhile, then it's back to the mine field!
I've tried three remedies, neither of which seems to have made any
difference;
1) Deleted the Windows directory and replaced it from backup (about 3 weeks
earlier; no significant changes had taken place prior to the upgrade effort).
I also put a Hualon VGA card in as I'd damaged the Oak card while it was out.
2) Replaced several of the OLE2*.DLL files in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM, as I'd had a
problem on another machine that was fixed by synchronizing those files.
3) Reinstalled WFWG, overwriting the existing installation but not replacing
it; all settings were intact.
Any ideas, folks?
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