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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:48:52 +0100
From: Reinhard Schaeck <schaeck AT ibm DOT net>
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Subject: Re: general protection exception
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 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.

I checked the archive for a solution, but I the only thing I found was the
problem description (by several people,
all Thinkpad users). I'll try to check all drivers in CONFIG.SYS, but it would
be helpful, if somebody who actually had
the problem would provide an answer...