This is a dagerous and bizarre effect which I can reliably reproduce with two different (DR-)DOS(7.02)-running machines (a 286, a 486, no others tried yet): Going online with DOSPPPD and the (Bobcat-)Lynx-"286", in it's "E08" version, selecting the following URLs: ==> http://home.dal.net/winterknight/qbasic.htm (This is part of Or Botton's web site) ==> http://www.bernal.co.uk/ (an place where I was looking for an article) I get the following effect: The Lynx does some - very short - page download and loading, and dumps to DOS with: "Exiting via interrupt: exit(0)", and sometimes readable, very shortly: "runtime overlay error" and/or "#2 ERROR # 0xAA accessing packet driver". After which, (a) the 'puter is reezed, and (b) after reboting: ==> !!! the entire CMOS BIOS entries are completely wiped !!! <== There's no disks, keyboard, nothing installed any more. The "advanced" BIOS section (it's AMI BIOSes) - typematic rates, boot sequence, memory shadows etc. - are set to what is probably the factory ROM settings. Only the time and date entries are left unchanged. *NEVER* have seen anything like that !!! Apparantly there is no other dammage;I could not find any stray parts of files or dumps on the disk, all progs and 'puter functions seem to work normally, well - *after* rewriting the CMOS entries. (And dang if I hadn't noted the HD specs somewhere.) First suspect sure is the Bobcat Lynx. But I wonder if not the packet driver or even the HTML coding could have some doubtfully influential effects. (Which is why I send this to the SurvPC list too.) // Heimo Claasen // < hammer @ inti . be > // Brussels 2000-10-09 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.inti.be/hammer To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
