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From: cyang%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Cheng Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: BASIC ON MY PC/AT COMPATIBLE
Message-ID: <1990Aug9.235419.3608@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 90 05:54:18 GMT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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Hi, I bought an IBM PC/AT (16MHz 286) compatible last year.  It worked fine
until I tried to run BASIC on that machine yesterday.  I am now runing 
IBM-DOS 4.00 on my machine and it is always dead when I type "basic"
under the directory c:\dos.  And even I can't use ctrl-alt-del to reboot
that machine.  I need to turn the power off the reset it.  Obviously
the machine goes to some unknown address when I try to run BASIC.
I have totally no idea about it.  I set up the 2-MByte RAM by myself totally 
according to the user's manual, which was provided by the manufacturer.
I am wondering if something is wrong with BIOS.

Does anybody here have the same experience I have got?  Or does anybody
have any idea of what happened to my PC?  

I would appreciate if you can give me any hint of solving my problem.

Thank you very much for your time.

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