On 2000-10-14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Good to hear from you again, Chad ;-) --
>I would check to make sure the memory is seated correctly on both
>machines. You may even go as far as pulling some of the memory, if
>it looks corroded, or if it is sitting crooked or whatever. Chip
>creep is common in the PC/XT machines, probably the AT too.
In a few weeks I'll have a week's vacation, so I should probably take
the time to do as you suggest. The PC/XT looks almost like new, but
you could very well be correct about the so-called "chip creep" effect.
I don't have a chip-pulling tool, though, so what would be the easiest
method to pull them up without one -- are they usually too firmly set
to safely dislodge them with my fingers?
I'm still curious about the "102" IBM diagnostic error message and what
it means, precisely -- and the "60000 (s)" part of the "Parity Check 1"
error on the AT.
I may have discovered the problem with Net-Tamer and Edit.exe. A few
moments ago, I decided to move Edit.com into Net-Tamer's main directory
in case it would work better there and discovered that the path for
my auxiliary editor was "c:\nt\red.com", the default editor! When I
first configured Net-Tamer for the AT, I had replaced (and removed)
the Red.com program with Edit.exe, and Edit.exe was in a different
directory. For some reason I must have changed that setting (can't
remember when or why), and Net-Tamer must have been crashing without
seeing Red.com. It's odd that it would still look for Edit.exe and
only crash occasionally! To avoid any other possible instability,
I've also put the Red.com program (and its accompanying help files)
back in the Net-Tamer directory. If I encounter any more errors, I'll
proceed as above with the chip re-seating.
Jerry [o:--] "The" IBM AT/5170 model 319 [--^~---] 9600kbps/30M HD
*1986 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| [ =====_] 512k RAM - 8MHz
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