From: Tim Updegrove Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: uclock failure at midnight Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:26:42 -0400 Organization: Lucent Technologies Lines: 24 Message-ID: <394F7112.EF6A5F53@lucent.com> References: <3947E438 DOT 814C7F47 AT lucent DOT com> <200006181724 DOT UAA15716 AT mailgw1 DOT netvision DOT net DOT il> NNTP-Posting-Host: pai830tupdegrove.micro.lucent.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I found out the program fails on a Dell XPS T500 (P3 500 Mhz) and Dell XPS 700r (P3 700 Mhz) booting directly to MS-DOS that comes with Win98se. It works fine on a Gateway ~500 Mhz and Compaq with Celeron ~400 Mhz. Any chance someone can try it on a Dell machine? Do you need to know hardware chip set or something? Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Tim Updegrove > > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp > > Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:59:52 -0400 > > > > I'm running v2.03. The failure only occurs when booting directly to MS-DOS > > (it doesn't fail in a dos box under Win98SE). Here is small test case. Use > > the "time" command to set the time 15 seconds or so before midnight and run > > the test. > > Sorry, I cannot reproduce this problem: your test program works > flawlessly for me on plain DOS system. I tried it several times, and > it didn't print any error messages. > > Perhaps you have some software installed on your machine that causes > this problem. How about posting details about your system > configuration?