Black Screen windowed (AREV Specific)
At 16 JUL 2004 06:02:46PM Dave Bennett wrote:
We have a new Terminal Server and when we start arev (which is on a data server, that has not changed) in a windowed screen we just receive the splash screen for a second and then get a black screen with a cursor in the upper left hand corner. Tryin the letters F, R, & A has no effect and full screen logs in fine with no issues.
Compaq/HP Proliant ML50 Generation 3
Zion 2.8 G
2.5 DDR GIG RAM
NT4 Terminal Server Addition
At 16 JUL 2004 08:19PM Steve Smith wrote:
Check your default printer device is assigned on the server.
I suspect that the video card or network card is conflicting with expanded memory. full screen is video mode 3 - and uses less RAM than the part window.
Try loading *without* expanded memory in part-screen mode, or changing the screen res back to 640 * 480 (temporarily) to confirm this diagnosis.
Also make certain you delete the AREV.PIF before you start, set the windows shortcut to AREV.EXE, disable exclusive in foreground. After you have done this, Windows knows what to do with AREV.EXE, and you can reset the shortcut to point to a batch file if necessary.
On recent hyperthreading technology, I've seen some whacky bugs with Citrix/Terminal Server and DOS app sessions. There are some solutions, but they are quite complex.
Steve