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From: grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Freezing 386
Message-ID: <1583@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 18:15:05 GMT
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Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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In article <?`X%RR%@rpi.edu> sigma@pawl.rpi.edu (Kevin J Martin) writes:
>Does anyone have any ideas as to why a 386/33 might freeze up under certain
>conditions?

Because the problem is apparently repeatable (instead of random/intermittent),
I smell an 'incompatibility bug' lurking about. Some of the "generic"
designs overlook the CRITICAL (I cannot over-empahsize this word) nit-pickys
about GATE_A20, restart, and Port B. 

If you can beg/borrow/steal the IBM Advanced Diagnostics, you can narrow
down the bug. Anything that does a lot of Real <--> Protected mode switches
and dies predictably points to an incomaptibility. I saw some truly bizarre
stuff while debugging a PC design at a previous employer.