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From: eparker@megatest.UUCP (Eric Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: WINDOWS ERRORS
Message-ID: <15089@boris.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 91 16:56:59 GMT
References: <1991Jan30.051400.5466@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <1991Jan30.051400.5466@chinet.chi.il.us>, by prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts):
> Tonight, though, while working in Corel Draw 1.21, I suddenly got a
> message box proclaiming a "UNRECOVERABLE APPLICATION ERROR"; Corel Draw
> ... stuff deleted ...
> PAUL BOTTS
> prb@chinet.chi.il.us

I have been having similar problems. Things will work OK for a while, I get
the "UNRECOVERABLE APPLICATION ERROR" message, sometimes my system will just
start to reboot by itself, other times it will start screaming. In my case I 
am using ansel to process large scanned images. I have worked pretty hard 
at figuring this out. This is what I know. Having 2meg of XMS memory requires 
that you use the A20 gate on your 8042. On alot of older clones this path 
doesn't work very well. And a recent Byte article says to switch to a newer 
date code part. This might help. Also, upgrade to the latest BIOS. In my case 
my 3 year DTK won't boot with their latest BIOS. So I am basically screwed. But 
if you can, get a hold of the Byte article, it gives plenty of advice ( none of 
which really worked for me ).

Also after a crash from windows you need to run chkdsk. windows leaves lots
of orphan blocks of your disk around when it crashes.

One thing to try is running in real mode and configuring the entire XMS system
as a cache. Not very satisfying, but it does work (at least for me). I use
hyperdisk which is way better than that piece of junk SmartDrv. You can get
a free evaluation copy from comupserve. Go DBASE and grep around for it. I forget
exactly which library it is in.

I personally am going to toss my DTK board and upgrade to a 386 mother board.
The only question is which one. I am pretty tired of the continious stream of
compatability problems from this board. In defense of DTK though, I have seen
their new 286 AT boards and they completely redesigned it. So if you have a
newer one maybe there is hope.

eric

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