Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:33:44 +0100
From: Tim Robinson <timothy DOT robinson AT ic DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: CWSDPMI r5
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On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 19:57:03 +0200
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> Please post the description of your system hardware and software: the
> machine vendor and type, OS and version, AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS,
> the works.
Well, it's safe-mode Windows 95 DOS, so presumably no AUTOEXEC.BAT or
CONFIG.SYS. Does safe mode literally not load anything, i.e. no
HIMEM.SYS or anything? I have had limited success running in normal
Win95 DOS (i.e. with EMM386, HIMEM.SYS) because, although the compiler
works marginally better, my program won't work because Emm386 has got
the CPU in V86 mode (this is my bug).
The machine is a Pentium III 500 with a 440BX chipset - it's one I put
together myself. The BIOS reports 64MB in bank DR0 and 16Mb in each of
DR2 and DR3 - i.e. a 64mb DIMM in one motherboard slot, 32mb in the
other. The BIOS is a fairly recent (mid-1999) American Megatrends.

> It is not required to do all that: the crashes indicate some serious
> system hardware or software configuration problem.
> 
> Do you per chance overclock your CPU, or set some aggressive CPU
> caching options in the CMOS setup?
I'm not overclocking the CPU; as far as I know the CPU cache is set to
the defaults. I'll try to find out more about the hardware environment,
but it's pretty much a clean system.

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Tim Robinson
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