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From: pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Novell crashes revisted
Summary: Ethernet+Nec SX+ELS = Crash!
Keywords: Novell NEC SX CRASH
Message-ID: <1990Sep23.211858.7712@CAM.ORG>
Date: 23 Sep 90 21:18:58 GMT
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For the past two months, I have had nothing but problems with a configuration
consisting of a Nec PowerMate SX Plus / Conner 100meg IDE / Compex Enet|M 
and Novell ELS I v2.12 .

Initial keyboard problems in non-dedicated mode were solved by an NEC keyboard
controller upgrade.  However, spontaneous crashes continue to plage the system.

On the advice of Nec tech support, I added 512K of additonal RAM (for a 
total of 1536K of usable server memory (total RAM = 2.5meg)).  The problems
persist.  The server crashes and produces visible garbage on the server's
screen consisting of characters > ASCII 128.  Rebooting is the only solution.

Have any of you encountered similar problems with NEC hardware or Compex
ethernet cards/drivers ????

The crashes happen at least once a day....  Any advice/hunches would be
greatly appreciated !


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