Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbfsb!cbnewsb.cb.att.com!sladkey From: sladkey@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (john.r.sladkey..jr) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: SKYGLOB2 freezes my PC Message-ID: <1991Mar20.212321.25527@cbfsb.att.com> Date: 20 Mar 91 21:23:21 GMT References: <4344@gmdzi.gmd.de> <6616@gssc.UUCP> Sender: news@cbfsb.att.com Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 26 In article <6616@gssc.UUCP> timr@gssc.UUCP (Tim Roberts) writes: >In article <4344@gmdzi.gmd.de> icking@gmdzi.gmd.de (Werner Icking) writes: >>I downloaded SKYGLOB2.ZIP from the SIMTEL mirror site >>wuarchive.wustl.edu. After successfully unpacking each attempt to run >>SKYGLOBE made it neccessary to re-boot. >> >>The configuration is: Siemens PCD-4T (80486) with DOS 4.01, VGA with >>cirrus chipset with 256k. >> >>Anyone else with the same problem? Any solution? > >I have EXACTLY the same problem with my 20MHz AST Premium 386C running >DOS 3.31 on a C&T chipset VGA. Evidently interrupts are getting disabled, >because the keyboard no longer responds. A reset is required to reboot. I had the same problem but I was eventually able to get SKYGLOB2 to work. IT IS WORTH IT, SO KEEP TRYING... I found out that skyglobe was writing to the monochrome video ram area, which it should DEFINITELY NOT be doing. Anyway, I was using the area as high ram for TSR's etc. and skyglobe was trashing any program that was legitimately using that memory through the memory manager. Either excluding B000-B7FF or booting ``clean'' allowed the program to run without crashing anything else. This may be related to other people's problems. Rick Sladkey mvjrs@mvgpk.att.com