Win31 reboots when using www

[Consultor]

Hello people...

I'm posting here because I couldn't find any forum for Win3.1.

I'm having problems with IE3.02 and Netscape 3.1 working under Win3.1 in a 386-based computer. The machine is rebooted when I try to load any www page using these softwares. I was thinking it happened because of its low RAM, but the machine has 8mb that is, according to the documentation of both softwares, really enough. And Win31 virtual memory is set to the recommended size (and I think Win will not use more, even if I force it.

Can you help me?

Thanks a lot,

Consultor

[Platypus]

Windows 3.x can benefit from more than 8M of real memory by reducing paging to the swapfile, but as you go above about 16M the benefit falls away.

I was recently trying to set up a Win 3.11 system for someone and was satisfactorily running 24M of RAM, with benefit as I was using IE5.

It was a failure though, as the Java support in Win 3.x is poor, even with IE5 (the latest IE you can get in 16 bit) and the last 16 bit Java release. Almost any site now will use Java for something, usually authentication is where you hit it first, and this may be your problem.

Netscape's 16 bit Java is weak too. I gave up on Win 3.1 even for email when sites like Eudoramail declared in their FAQ that Win 3.x was an unsupported platform.

[Consultor]

Hm, a little question...

Both IE3 and Netscape3 don't run Java on a 386-based machine running Win3x. They both run only Javascript (and I guess it's the reason of both problems). I've run Netscape4 on a 386 and it runs Java, but it's very very slow.

Maybe the only solution will be disabling Javascript on Netscape or IE (and loose almost all the web content).

Well, I'll try this.

Tks !