micro-editor won't start

[Rich LePage]

A few things you might try:

1. Did you have the Krystal out of the computer, since
you mentioned you hadn't used it in a while? If so, check
that it's seated OK. I've seen your symptoms in my systems
several times when Krystal was almost- but not quite-
seated. Many case/mboard combos easily permit that.

2. If 1 above is OK, what about the interrupt for the slot Krystal is running in? Under 5.3 I think a dedicated IRQ was still required.
You can often hard-map an IRQ in most BIOSes to the slot-- but some BIOS won't allow doing that. There's stuff in the Medit manual about that as well as IRQ sharing within Win98-- but you need the manual that has the Win98 tweaks in it, not the Win95 ones. Drove me nuts once which is why I mention it. If you don't have the Win98 version of the manual, contact MTU about getting that.

3. With 5.3 I think you can still run the Krystal and motherboard tests that should be in your 5.3 directory. Note that if you installed the IRQ-less drivers for say 5.4 I don't think that runs correctly in that case. If you can run it, do so and see if you are getting good numbers and results from the motherboard and Krystal.

Hope some of that helps.