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From: len@elxsi.UUCP (Len Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: overwriting CMOS (was: HARDCARD 1701(B) problem)
Keywords: configuration error - run setup
Message-ID: <2894@elxsi.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 89 21:32:38 GMT
References: <457@ringwood.Morgan.COM> <110200020@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: len@elxsi.UUCP (Len Mills)
Organization: ELXSI Super Computers, San Jose
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In article <110200020@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>When I put a bug in the program (Often!) Windows dies and it is the
>big black  (this is a Dell 310 with a 150 meg hard disk) switch.
>When I turn it back on, it says "configuration error - run setup" and
>double beeps. 
>
>What is going on?

    You most likely have a wild pointer which is allowing you to
    modify the contents of the CMOS ram.  That's what causes this
    symptom for me.  Note that you don't even have to be using
    windows to have a bug with this symptom, all you need to have
    is a program which isn't small model.

    Run to your favorite debugging environment and start Watching
    those pointers!

>Doug McDonald


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Len Mills ...
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