Win 3.1 to run on a 386

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Name: Glenn Thureson
Date: February 9, 2002 at 04:47:34 Pacific
Subject: Win 3.1 to run on a 386

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I'm trying to fix someone's 386 machine which crashed taking WFW 3.1 (?) with it. I've got DOS running, but when I tried to install my Win 3.1, it balked saying it required a 486 - get the other version. Any ideas?

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Response Number 1

Name: Alex
Date: February 9, 2002 at 07:58:09 Pacific
Subject: Win 3.1 to run on a 386

Reply: (edit)

Never heard of Win3 throwing up this error, because the minimum for Win3 FW is a 386, and the minimum for plain Windows 3 is a 286.
It should work - when does the error appear (at what stage of setup)
Al

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Name: Mark p
Date: February 9, 2002 at 11:16:42 Pacific
Subject: Win 3.1 to run on a 386

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What version of dos is on the machine?
Just type ver at the command prompt.

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