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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!isucard.card.iastate.edu!MLONG
  3. From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
  4. Subject: Re: MCA bus problem
  5. Message-ID: <16851F07E.MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu>
  6. Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: CARD
  8. References:  <5233@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
  9. Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:06:03 GMT
  10. Lines: 37
  11.  
  12. In article <5233@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>                                        
  13. prpst2+@pitt.edu (Paul R Perdeus) writes:                                       
  14.                                                                                 
  15. >Hello all,                                                                     
  16. >                                                                               
  17. >      I'm sorry for the cross posts, but I can't remember where I got the      
  18. >      answer from the first time!  A month or so ago I wrote in about a        
  19. >      problem with Win3.1 and WFW 2.0.  One of the problems I was having       
  20. >      was that any time I would run the dos prompt or any dos application      
  21. >      I would get the following message:                                       
  22. >                                                                               
  23. >                                  System Error                                 
  24. >                                                                               
  25. >                   Microchannel bus timeout error detected.                    
  26. >                   System halted...                                            
  27. >                                                                               
  28. >      I posted this (along with other problems) to these newsgroups and one    
  29. >      of the responses I got told me to put a line in my win.ini or system.ini 
  30. >      files that said something about MCAxxxxx=off or something like that.     
  31. >      From what I remember (my system crashed shortly after that due to an     
  32. >      unrelated problem and I lost everything!) it seemed to have done the     
  33. >      trick.  I think it got rid of the error.  I am hoping to get someone to  
  34. >      fill in the 'x' 's above.  I'm using a PS/2 model 55.  I would greatly   
  35. >      appreciate it if someone could help me.  Any other suggestions on this   
  36. >      problem would also be appreciated.                                       
  37. >                                                                               
  38. >                                                thanks a lot!                  
  39. >                                                                               
  40. >                                                       Paul                    
  41. >                                                                               
  42. >      p.s. A reply to this group is fine or email at:                          
  43. >                                                                               
  44. >                                    prpst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu                   
  45. >                                                                               
  46. How about MCADMA=off in ~386enh
  47. Mike Long                                                                       
  48. Iowa State University                                                           
  49.