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From: gunther@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Gunther Wil Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: 386 system problems
Message-ID: <4328@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 24 Feb 90 07:29:16 GMT
References: <36@demott.COM>
Reply-To: eisen@jhunix.UUCP (Gunther Wil Anderson)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <36@demott.COM> kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>
>    I have a utility called search, which is one of those do-everything
>type utilities.  When I try to run it on some (cheap) 386 systems, it
>hangs the CPU so that it has to be reset or power cycled.  I do not have
>this problem on 808x, 80286 systems, or on Compaq, AST, Dell, or Everex
>386 systems.
>
>    Has anyone run into something similar?  Any educated guesses?

My educated guess is that there is some timing conflict.  Try slowing
your machine down to a crawl, and see if it works then. Yes, Dorothy,
there is such a thing as a machine too fast.

						Gunther W. Anderson
						gunther@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu