any windows 3.11 gurus kickin around?

[supernova777]

hey guys whats up!

so i have this abit be6 mobo, that takes ISA slots, 2 isa slots

so i decided to try to revisit the past and make a windows 3.11 box..

 

background

ive got it working.. i installed ms-dos 6.22 , actually first i tried 7.1 with fat32 and that worked out horribly

so i started over with a clean wipe of my 20gb ide drive to fat16, 2gb for the first pri dos partition, and then the rest isnt allocated for now.. but is in an extended partition with no logical partitions.. anyway so i have one c: drive fat 16 and 2gb in size.. running dos 6.22 i installed windows 3.11 fine.. installed my 3com networking 100baset card just fine

the other hardware that i have is a midiman winman 4x4/s midi interface that provides 4 in 4 out midi connections.. and a sound blaster AWE32

the first time i tried to install the sound blaster awe32 with dos 7.1 worked amazing. it did everything on its own via the dos based installer.. and worked fine. now since started over with dos 6.22 i cant get the same installer to work properly.. im not sure if its a hardware conflict between the winman 4x4/s and the awe32.. i dont think so tho.. the winman4x4 is set up on 300h / irq 10 .. and the awe32 is at .. im not sure i cant find the settings atm..

 

internet explorer 5.0 on windows 3.11

now.. that aside. my other issue is the browsers

i installed a few. opera.. netscape + internet explorer

id like some help teling internet explorer to use the LAN connection.

my networking is working as i can use Cute FTP to connect to my fileserver just fine.. but the internet explorer.. i cant get it to load any pages at all..

wikipedia says internet explorer 5 was released in 1999: "Version 5.0, launched on March 18, 1999"

should i be trying a lower version?? oh and theres also an error message about somethign called "winsock" when windows first starts up

anyway if someoen can help me figure this out or point me at a tutorial or book or something?? id be really grateful

 

cubase for windows 1993

another issue is ive got cubase score for windows 1.03d installed and i cant figure out how to get any midi signals *IN* to cubase.. ie : to record my own playing

i can draw notes in just fine with the mouse and they play back just fine.. via the winman 4x4/s... but in the arrange window, per track shows an "output" setting but no "input" setting

and i cant find any input settings anywhere in the entire app!!! so confusing

Edited December 6, 2014 by supernova777

[pangoomis]

Do you have TCP/IP installed? (note it only works in Windows for Workgroups 3.11)

If not, grab it here: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/clients/wfw/TCP32B.EXE

[georg]

You might try IE 3.01

http://www.oldapps.com/internet_explorer.php?supported_systems=true

or try running Arachne under DOS

http://www.glennmcc.org/

[supernova777]

yes i installed the tcp stack update - my networking is working fine.. but just not for browsers.

Edited December 6, 2014 by supernova777

[supernova777]

does anyone know which video card is best for windows 3.11 too? im currently using a TNT2 M64 pci card... and im getting some strange video glitches in cubase score v1.03d...

im not sure if its the program or the cards drivers causing the glitch..

[submix8c]

It would be nice if you said which drivers/version and where you got them from.

[jaclaz]

While still using FAT16 as underlying filesystem for the "boot" volume, personally I would still attempt to run Windows 3.11 on 7.x rather than on 6.2x, just in case:

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/97945-windows-311-and-ms-dos-71/

 

Working link to 3xStart:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081221094417/http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/win3x.htm

 

Opera 3.62 (16 bit) used to work fine on 3.11:

http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=12102

http://arc.opera.com/pub/opera/win/362/english/

 

jaclaz

[georg]

This page should give you a working list of compatible cards:

http://www.win31.de/edrivers.htm

Scroll down to the section on Graphics/Video

With Nvidia RIVA 128 you can still get driver from Nvidia

http://www.nvidia.com/object/riva_drivers

Drivers still available from Matrox

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/latest/

Scroll way down to Previously Released Drivers for Older Matrox products

 

Edited December 7, 2014 by georg

[rloew]

There is no reason not to use IO.SYS 7.1 and FAT32 with Windows 3 even for the Boot Volume.

A couple of simple Patches to IO.SYS and Windows makes it work.

[dencorso]

You mean these, also discussed further in this other thread staring on this post, right?

[rloew]

You mean these, also discussed further in this other thread staring on this post, right?

Your links show my Patch for the Current Directory issue.

I didn't see the Patch for the IO.SYS Patch required unless it is at the Website in German.

[dencorso]

You mean these, also discussed further in this other thread staring on this post, right?

Your links show my Patch for the Current Directory issue.

I didn't see the Patch for the IO.SYS Patch required unless it is at the Website in German.

Isn't it this one (viz. 3xSTART.EXE) jaclaz had already provided a link for?

 

Working link to 3xStart:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081221094417/http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/win3x.htm

[rloew]

You mean these, also discussed further in this other thread staring on this post, right?

Your links show my Patch for the Current Directory issue.

I didn't see the Patch for the IO.SYS Patch required unless it is at the Website in German.

Isn't it this one (viz. 3xSTART.EXE) jaclaz had already provided a link for?

Working link to 3xStart:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081221094417/http://oldfiles.org.uk/powerload/win3x.htm

Yes.

I use IE6 when on this forum. IE6 says his link doesn't exist so I skipped over it . K-Meleon renders it properly.

[supernova777]

i couldnt get the combination of windows 3.11 & dos 7.1 to function reliably and when i tried to patch IO.SYS i couldnt find that file anywhere on my hard drive in order to patch it.. so maybe it was hidden

anyways i used ms-dos 6.22 and had ZERO problems.. i dont think its neccessary to have more then 2gb of disk space for a windows 3.11 computer

i am using this for midi sequencing  apps only.. there is very little space required 2gb is more than sufficient for this.

 

I would rather use the os within the original limitations + have no worries then to use a hack/patch that can bring about unpredictable results.

 

my issue with cubase is also resolved.. my ISA card (winman 4x4/s) seems to be faulty.. I have used a parallel device instead (portman 4x4/s) and

now all is good;)

 

im still having problems with internet explorer.. i have to tell it to use the local network LAN connection but it keeps asking me to set up a dial up connection

any advice is appreciated.

Edited December 9, 2014 by supernova777

[rloew]

IO.SYS is always in C:\.

In some cases it may be hidden.

You can unhide it by using:

ATTRIB -h -s -r IO.SYS