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- From: dtl@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Dean Lindsay)
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:30:38 GMT
- Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 crashes on old 386 with non IDE controller.
- Message-ID: <98280001@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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- Chuck Bass writes:
-
- >We recently brought our machine to maintainence because int was
- >crashing intermitantly in Win. 3.1. This is an old 386 with
- >1989 AMI BIOS. (I don't recall what motherboard). It has been
- >in for a week now after withstanding swapped memory, BIOS,
- >motherboard and now they say that a non-IDE drive is the
- >culprit.
- >
-
- The Win 3.1 resource kit says that 1989 AMI BIOS has a problem
- with intermittent crashes (I'm going by memory). It is in the
- section near the front called known BIOS problems. It also
- says that 1991 AMI BIOS has this problem as I recall. What BIOS
- did they swap into it? A number of BIOS anomolies are listed
- in this section of the resource manual.
-
- I have 1990 AMI BIOS. I wonder why my 386DX intermittently
- crashes in MS-DOS sessions now that I have installed a Texel SCSI
- CD-ROM on a DTC 3280A controller?
-
- Dean Lindsay
-