Windows 3.11 error

[spidey66]

I am running a 486/66 with windows 3.1. After my computer boots, at the c prompt I type in win to run windows and my computer crashes/locks up (blank black screen). I though that one of my windows files was corrupt so I tried to rerun setup. However when I run setup it will not accept the second disk in setup. It gives me a "cannot find file error" ????? I am confused on why the computer would do this I know these disks work. Anyone have any advice on how I can get windows to run again.

Thanks

Dale Schwer

[Igor M]

Hi,

I'm not sure this is your case, but sometimes setup don't know where exactly the file located and asks for the wrong disk. Try to insert other disks one by one and may be the file will be found.

Good luck, Igor M.

[spidey66]

I also tried this and it did not work.

[spidey66]

Instead of getting a blank screen after windows3.1 starts now it gives me this error

"cannot find a device file that may be needed to run windows in enhanced 386 mode. you need to run the setup program again vpmtd.386".

Of course setup wont run properly so i am at a loss. Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
Dale

[cyril]

This is the type of thing that happens if you have the wrong video defined. Run setup from the Windows subdir and check you video\monitor select. There is a basic one for all monitors which (if I remember) is VGA 640/400. If that doesn't work, rename your windos subdir to winold or something. Then install windows cleanly to a C:\windows subdir. Copy all the *.dll from the Windows subdir to the winold subdir. copy all the Windows\system files to the winold\system subdir. rename windows to winnew, rename winold to windows. then restart the machine. If you reinstall windows on top of windows, there is a good chance that corrupted files especially .dll will not get rewritten over.