Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:22:05 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: CWSDPMI r5
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Tim Robinson 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.

If there's no AUTOEXEC.BAT, where do you set PATH and the DJGPP 
environment variables?

Also, what does "mem /c" print?

> Does safe mode literally not load anything, i.e. no
> HIMEM.SYS or anything?

It depends.  I think HIMEM is always loaded by default on Windows 9X,
unless you prevent it in CONFIG.SYS.

What does go32-v2 print when invoked with no arguments?

> The machine is a Pentium III 500 with a 440BX chipset - it's one I put
> together myself.

Does it have any special peripheral devices, besides the usual IDE disk 
interface?

> I'm not overclocking the CPU; as far as I know the CPU cache is set to
> the defaults.

Just as an experiment, try to disable the CPU cache entirely and see if 
the crashes go away.  (The machine will work much slower.)

It is also possible that the memory chips are not keeping up with the 
CPU, or perhaps there's some other memory-related hardware problem.