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From: jstone@world.std.com (Jeffrey R Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Hanging it at 25MHz!!
Message-ID: <1990Nov3.035601.9819@world.std.com>
Date: 3 Nov 90 03:56:01 GMT
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tmbernat@shine3.waterloo.edu writes:


>I recently purchased a clone 386-25MHz, with 1Mb (hey, only a poor student!),
>and I run into weird things with it.  When running programs I wrote in TC++
>the damn thing likes to hang on me.  This never happens at 8Mhz.
>Has anyone else ever had a problem like this?  I didn't buy a 25MHz machine to
>run it at 1/3 speed!  The dealer won't help me.  Is it a 'wait state' problem?

I have a 33 MHz 386 in which I installed the noname Herc board which has run
in my XT for a couple of years.  One program in particular (and a text program
at that) blanks the board at 33MHz, but works fine at 8.  I thought my machine
was hanging, til I happened to try typing to it blind.  I dismissed the program
and typed "MODE MONO" to DOS, and everything continued just as before the 
blanking.  (It appears that the board goes into black-on-black, but I can't be
sure).  Could something like this be happening to you?

-jeff-