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dwpars...@t-online.de (Dave Parsons)

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

BP7 reboots PII 350Mhz under MS-DOS 6.2

Hello,
I have been running BP7 in a DOS full screen session under
OS/2 on a PII 350 and under MS-DOS 6.2 on a PII 166 for a
while now without any problems except for the well known
RTE200.
I recently tried to move the installation from then PII 166 to
a new PII 350 using MS-DOS 6.2 and found that on invoking
the compiler (BP.EXE) the computer rebooted instantly and
without any error messages.
Both the PII 166 & PII 350 MS-DOS computers use SCSI.

I have had a look through Pedt Scragg's Mini FAQ and not
found anything obvious except for perhaps:-

* My computer has more than 64Mb of memory and BP7 will not work

Unfortunately there is no more information, no link for this
question and 'will not work' could mean many things.

Has anyone come across a rebooting problem before?
If so I would appreciate any links/info.

I should add that the PC in question appears to work OK in
every other respect even to running programs compiled using
the same BP7 compiler on the PII 166.
The computer in question is at work, where I don't have access
to Usenet posting, and I can't remember any more details but I
can find out on Monday if anyone has any ideas.

Thanks in advance,
--
Dave
This OS/2 system uptime is 0 days, 14h and 21m (en).

 
Frederic Bonro

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:BP7 reboots PII 350Mhz under MS-DOS 6.2


Quote
Dave Parsons wrote:
> I have been running BP7 in a DOS full screen session under
> OS/2 on a PII 350 and under MS-DOS 6.2 on a PII 166 for a
> while now without any problems except for the well known
> RTE200.
> I recently tried to move the installation from then PII 166 to
> a new PII 350 using MS-DOS 6.2 and found that on invoking
> the compiler (BP.EXE) the computer rebooted instantly and
> without any error messages.
> Both the PII 166 & PII 350 MS-DOS computers use SCSI.

> I have had a look through Pedt Scragg's Mini FAQ and not
> found anything obvious except for perhaps:-

> * My computer has more than 64Mb of memory and BP7 will not work

I have 128 mb of memory, and I encounter exactly the same problem when
terminating Windows 98 and telling it to quit to DOS mode. However, when
I run BP in a Windows DOS box or after having booted to plain DOS, there
are no problems. Did you try that?
Dave Parso

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:BP7 reboots PII 350Mhz under MS-DOS 6.2


Quote
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 13:06:03, Frederic Bonroy <fbon...@mail.dotcom.fr> wrote:
> Dave Parsons wrote:

> > I recently tried to move the installation from then PII 166 to
> > a new PII 350 using MS-DOS 6.2 and found that on invoking
> > the compiler (BP.EXE) the computer rebooted instantly and
> > without any error messages.
> > Both the PII 166 & PII 350 MS-DOS computers use SCSI.

> > I have had a look through Pedt Scragg's Mini FAQ and not
> > found anything obvious except for perhaps:-

> > * My computer has more than 64Mb of memory and BP7 will not work

> I have 128 mb of memory, and I encounter exactly the same problem when
> terminating Windows 98 and telling it to quit to DOS mode. However, when
> I run BP in a Windows DOS box or after having booted to plain DOS, there
> are no problems. Did you try that?

This PC only runs DOS, but it may be the same problem.
I didn't check the amount of RAM but I think it has 64MByte, I'll
check on Monday.
Do you know whether this particular problem affects only PCs
with > 64MByte or also with >= 64MByte?

--
Dave
This OS/2 system uptime is 0 days, 20h and 0m (en).

Bernd Heutlin

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:BP7 reboots PII 350Mhz under MS-DOS 6.2


Hi,

did you try the EMM386 switch NOVCPI?
Helped me with 64MBytes RAM.

Greetings,
Bernd Heutling

Frederic Bonro

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:BP7 reboots PII 350Mhz under MS-DOS 6.2


Quote
Dave Parsons wrote:
> This PC only runs DOS, but it may be the same problem.
> I didn't check the amount of RAM but I think it has 64MByte, I'll
> check on Monday.
> Do you know whether this particular problem affects only PCs
> with > 64MByte or also with >= 64MByte?

No idea.

By the way, an anti-virus scanner running in 32 bit protected mode also caused my
computer to reboot - and again, this happens only after having told Windows to
restart in DOS mode (NOT when booting to plain DOS).

Dave Parso

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:BP7 reboots PII 350Mhz under MS-DOS 6.2


Quote
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:27:22, Bernd Heutling <Heutl...@mbox.ikph.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
> Hi,

> did you try the EMM386 switch NOVCPI?
> Helped me with 64MBytes RAM.

> Greetings,
> Bernd Heutling

Yes I tried it yesterday and it now works.
I've never heard of VCPI, I haven't done any DOS programming
for over 10 years now until the last couple of months.

For the record the system in question is:-
PII 350 MHz,
64MByte RAM
Adaptec SCSI adapter
I Will motherboard with Award 4.51pg BIOS.

--
Dave
This OS/2 system uptime is 0 days, 9h and 45m (en).

Konstantin Kol

Delphi Developer
Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:BP7 reboots PII 350Mhz under MS-DOS 6.2


I've experienced the exactly same problems on various machines. They've all got
one thing in common: 128 MB RAM. Since I sell my software, I was forced to buy
an extra computer with that much memory to do some tests. The result is:
HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE seem to be faulty !!! They crash each and every
DPMI-based software, including Borland Pascal, programs written with it,
3D-Studio, DOS4/GW executables and more. Simply remove that stuff, and there you
go. However, you'll have onlz 64 MB available for your Borland Pascal programs.

Konstantin Koll
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