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to: BARRY BOGART
from: JAMES MCKENZIE
date: 1998-04-19 11:58:00
subject: Error

Hello Barry!
17 Apr 98 09:22, Barry Bogart wrote to James Mckenzie:
 JM>> To get more info on the video drivers look at the syslevel.vid
 JM>> file, or run syslevel from an OS/2 command prompt session
 JM>> (windowed or full screen).
 BB>  Here's what it said:
 BB> C:\OS2\INSTALL\SYSLEVEL.VID
 BB>                            Vision864/964/868/968/Trio32/64/64V+/64V2
 BB> Version 3.03     Component ID 562107701
 BB> Current CSD level: S330316
 BB> Prior   CSD level: NONE
 JM>> This might be the source of your problem.  If the card is a PNP
 JM>> PCI card, check your motherboard's IRQ settings and set all
 JM>> "legacy" cards (non-PNP) IRQs to that type.  I found a problem
 JM>> with PNP
 BB>  Ok, Is this in the BIOS Setup?
Yes.
 BB> I'll hold off on this for a bit. I did the following and it seemed to
 BB> help:
 BB> 1) Disabled the secondary IDE Adapter. (CD-Rom was the only device
 BB> using it
 BB>    and I seldom use it)
 BB> 2) Upped the Swap disk space to 125mb.
 BB> 3) Changed DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT to 1mb, was at 32mb.
This can help.  If a program is not using DPMI memory, this is the lowest 
setting.
 BB> Now the Nodes don't randomly crash and no Hard Traps, etc.
 BB> Although, I did try to add another node yesterday and things started
 BB> to go wrong again, I believe its memory related.
I agree.
 BB> And so I removed the added node and things appear to be fine again.
You need to get more "physical" memory.
James
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