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- From: wang@sparc8.cs.uiuc.edu (Eric Wang)
- Subject: Mouse causes trap on install
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.193656.25522@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Sender: news@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu
- Reply-To: wang@cs.uiuc.edu
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:36:56 GMT
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- I've got a Northgate 386-20 Page Mode with 4 MB of DRAMs and a Microsoft
- mouse. After I boot the Installation disk and Diskette 1, just waving
- the mouse around causes a trap 000d within 1 second 100% of the time. I
- had 4 spare DRAMs, so I laboriously swapped them into my computer, i.e.
- boot install, wave mouse -> get trapped, power down, swap 4 chips, boot
- install, wave mouse -> get trapped, etc. for 9 iterations. I suppose I
- could disable my COM ports and try installing without the mouse, but
- I've already resigned myself to junking this DRAMned Northgate
- motherboard and have purchased a new one (that uses SIMMs, yaaay), which
- is on order.
-
- OS/2 -- it really *is* a better mousetrap.
-
- (Snicker snort -- it was almost worth the DRAM hassle just to establish
- this pun.)
-
- Eric Wang
- wang@cs.uiuc.edu
-