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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: ATI 386sx crashes with memory failure msg- WHY?
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Date: 13 May 91 14:40:05 GMT

dmoyer@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dan Moyer) writes:

>I have a IBM clone using a ATI 386sx motherboard that inexplicably
>crashes.

It may or may not be related to your problem, but I had trouble with
Windows 3, in enhanced mode, on an NEC PowerMate 386 in which the system
would either refuse to start Windows, or would crash with strange errors
inside Windows.  At times the symptom would be a loop; a three-finger salute
would produce a memory error message and/or a report that CMOS was
corrupted.

The problem was solved by a new driver our people got through Novell; it
involved conflicts for IRQ2.  vpicda.386 replaces the internal driver
*vpic in the [386enh] section of system.ini.

Joe Morris