Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:26:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Reinhard Schaeck <schaeck AT ibm DOT net>
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Subject: Re: general protection exception
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On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Reinhard Schaeck wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Patrick R. White wrote:
> 
> > I have a 6 mos. old IBM ThinkPad 770 with Pentium 233MMX, 96mb SDRAM
> and
> > Win95 OSR2.0. I downloaded DJGPP version 2.01 and unzipped it with
> > ZipMagic 98. In a DOS window, I have once been able to compile a small
> C
> > program and ask for the gcc version a couple of times.
> >
> > Now trying to execute gcc for anything results in a GPE.  Does anybody
> 
> > else have these problems?
> 
> This is exactly my problem nowadays. On exactly the same machine (TP 770
> P233MMX, 96MB SDRAM, Win95 OSR2.0).
> Has it ever been solved?

This has come up before, search the DJGPP mail archives at
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/ for "Thinkpad".

As far as I remember, the reason was that Thinkpad loads some drivers
for the PCMCIA cards.  Somebody reported that removing those drivers
from CONFIG.SYS solved the problems.