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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5613)	1/26/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>> Gloomy dialogs ... Doesn't sound like DI is hanging; it sounds like it's trying to tell you something but there's a video setting and/or problem somewhere so you can't read the dialog box. (Datek had black text on a black background for a while -- talk about exciting trading !). This maybe something simple like "Press ESC When Ready" or "Press ENTER When You're Sick Of My Screwing Around." Again, welcome to the world of Wintel. "Conventional" memory refers to the first 684K memory addresses that can be addressed in "real" mode by I386-class processors and relatives (486, Pentium, PII, etc). DOS applications and an unfortunate quantity of Win 95/98 ones stake out claims on this space. No amount of RAM will affect that. Still, I doubt that's the problem here. Sounds like there's a problem in video settings or maybe the DOS driver is mad at the AGP card. Typically, text-mode utilities put up multicolored dialog boxes to prove how sophisticated the programmers are. PQ, as I recall, is no exception, so I'd guess DI isn't either. Is there a DOS MGA200 utility on the CD Rom? Try fiddling with the text-mode settings (80x25 resolution, which is 80 charsx25 rows).