Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 17:28:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: go32 crashes
To: OKRA AT max DOT tiac DOT net
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>  I don't know why - it isn't my system and I don't know much about it. 
>All I know is that the 486 in the math building at my school crashes as
>soon as I run go32.  I type "go32", the cursor goes to the next line and
>nothing happens.  It will reset with a ctrl-alt-del combo, ^C does
>nothing.  It's a "link"  computer (I suppose that's the company...) I
>tried it without running autoexec or config.sys and it still crashed. 
>Anybody have any ideas what I should try?

My initial impression was that something (DOS 5 EMM386?) had put it
in V86 mode w/o VCPI, but that wouldn't explain its failure to work
after booting clean.  Suggestion:  Get a program like infoplus or snooper
which determines system configuration and see if it reports anything odd.
(If you aren't sure, run it at home as a control...might as well anyway,
as the results are often somewhat interesting.)


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