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From: dar@nucleus.mi.org (Dario Alcocer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Coherent, anybody?
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.183442.22228@nucleus.mi.org>
Date: 9 Jul 90 18:34:42 GMT
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markad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Mark Donnell) writes:

>Well, since everyone else has been passing on Coherent stories,
>I think I will too. I received Coherent about 2 weeks ago (I got
>it in about 12 days too). When I tried to boot it up, I got to the
>'?' prompt, typed 'begin', and that was the end of that - reset 
>button time. It dumped a set of register contents, said something
>like 'System Panic', and died. MWC had no real ideas, and Noone
> [stuff deleted]
>In case you're interested, I'm on a Nascent (motherboard) 386-25,
>discrete chip set, AMI (?)Aug 17, 1988 Bios, WD disk controller,
>40 meg connor disk, teac 1.2M floppy, genoa vga.

I had the same problem with my 386 clone (AMI BIOS), but it was an
intermitten problem for me.  It seemed to happen most after having
run MS-DOS, then did a soft-reboot; maybe the GDT is using the garbage
left in memory by the last DOS run...

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