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- From: Frank Hoffmann <fh.pad@sni.de>
- Subject: Re: nonIBM compatibility problem/error?
- Message-ID: <frank.713729002@fam168>
- Sender: news@nixpbe.sni.de
- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany
- References: <l8e7ubINN4ji@pollux.usc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:03:22 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- aabdalla@pollux.usc.edu (Ahmed Abd-Allah) writes:
-
-
- >We have written a piece of software that uses a home-grown, text-mode
- >windows library.
- >...
-
- >Unfortunately, something is simply not working. Our customer has the
- >same software running on an IBM PS/2 with no problem. But on the
- >above IBM-compatible, at a specific place in the code, the program
- >consistently locks up. We have gone over this area of the source
- >over and over again, and we can see nothing wrong.
- >
- >One last thing: We asked our customer to send us the computer he was
- >using to check it, and we sent him a replacement (another IBM-compatible
- >with EGA card, non-IBM PS/2). The funny thing is we can run the
- >software perfectly in our lab off the computer he sent us! And what's
- >worse is that the new computer we sent him is also failing now too!!
- >One more last thing: Our customer uses our system in a clean room. Is
- >there enough noise to mess up program execution - but in the same place
- >consistently?!?
-
- With this information given i would tend to say that your customer probably
- has an electricity problem. If you're dealing with any peripherals in the
- code that locks up, i.e. accessing a printer or a built-in streamer, the
- power needed to operate the system increases rapidly. If the electrical in-
- stallation is at end, there might be not enough resource to supply the power.
-
- Anyway, if that isn't the case you may email the piece of code here or at
- my email-address below. Probably we'll find something obscure in there.
-
- >Thanks for reading this, and more thanks if you can help us...
- >Please email at "aabdalla@pollux.usc.edu"
-
- You're welcome...
-
- >Ahmed
-
- frank
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