Some suggestions (mainly generic diagnostic suggestions):
(1) If this only happens on the external monitor, you could try
uninstalling/reinstalling the monitor driver. Make sure, when you
reinstall, that you tell it not to use the driver it finds already
installed.
(2) Try running in safe mode and see if this helps.
(3) Try starting Wordstar using a DOS-style batch file.
(4) Run Wordstar under DOSBox, which is more stable than the Windows DOS
emulator.
(5) Try Dial-a-Fix, http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Dial-a-fix (check all the
boxes for the "registration center"). Do heed the warning about the
"Documents" folder.
David
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From: "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 11:30 PM
To: "Aryeh Goretsky (home)" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T43/WXP some disaster with ntvdm session
Here is from my log
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March 18, 2011 Install PSI to C:\Program Files\Secunia\PSI and run
fails to run
Uninstall
March 18, 2011 Uninstall XoftSpy.exe (does nothing without payment)
March 18, 2011 Install javasetup624.exe (v 1.6)
Run Secunia OSI update
Installs
* Apple QT to 7.6.9
* Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.26 (NPAPI).
* Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.26 (ActiveX)
March 19, 2011 Install trial DU Meter
March 19, 2011 WordStar ^OP causes black screen. Possibly "NTVDM has
encountered an illegal instruction)"
Disabling DU Meter in MSCONFIG does not solve the problem.
March 20, 2011 Run sfc /scannow
"to see what was replaced, right click My Computer > manage, expand event
viewer > system"
No replacements found
March 21, 2011 Download 16-bit quick fix from
<http://www.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php?p=20238&t=4&i=1>
winfx16.msi
Fails to solve the problem
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:18:27 -0700, Aryeh Goretsky (home) wrote:
Hello,
Were any changes made recently to the system? A driver or OS update,
perhaps?
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
At 10:00 AM 3/20/2011, you wrote:
Message: 2
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:56:55 +0700
From: "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Thinkpad] T43/WXP some disaster with ntvdm session
To: "Thinkpad Users Group" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Maybe some of you will have ideas about this mystery.
My T43 is perking along and about 4 hrs daily I am using
WordStar (16-bit DOS ap) which has been working fine for
me since 1983 and is rocket fast as it's written in
assembly language.
Suddenly I can no longer use WordStar's Page Preview function,
which switches the screen drive from character mode to
graphics mode and gives me the WSYISYG view of the word
processing file I am drafting.
When I execute WordStar's keyboard command ^OP it instead
causes the video drive to my IBM external monitor to disappear,
resulting in a black screen ("power saving mode" comes on--you
get the idea).
I can recover control of the machine only by hitting Alt-Tab to
move to another ap in order to get the display back. I have to
kill the NTVDM process with the Task Manager and it leaves a mess
of $x$ files behind.
I ran SFC /scannow which found no errors, and I also replaced
the ntvdm files with good versions from the i386 cache without
improvement. NSW WinDoctor finds no registry errors.
Any ideas what might be wrong? How to diagnose what is wrong?
Clue: at one point I received a never-before-seen screen message,
I think after some timeout condition:
WordStar 7: The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal
instruction. CS: 0054 OP:ff ff ff ff a9 Chose Close
to terminate this application
Googling this brought up the ideas of sfc and replacing the
ntvdm files but as noted neither cured the malfunction.
Thanks for any help
Jeffrey Race
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