On 2000-10-15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Sam> said:
>Error 102 = Timer Failure.
>Info is from "Pocket PC Reference" by Thomas J. Glover and Millie M.
>Young, 5th Edition, and is found in the section dealing with IBM
>XT/AT class error codes. See page 62.
The only reference I have to a "timer" of some kind is in the
glossary of a repair book I have called *Assembling and
Troubleshooting Microcomputers (James Perozzo; Delmar Publishers,
Inc.), where it says:
"Timer chips - Integrated circuits used to provide digital waveforms
or to provide timing functions through their counting ability."
There is no other information (not easy to locate, anyway) about
troubleshooting a problem with "timer failure". As a matter of fact,
this book provides the IBM diagnostic disk's error codes, but for some
reason 102 is not listed (101 and 103, but not 102).
>Another error you mentioned in one of your posts on this subject is
>"Parity Check 1 6000". I could not find this error listed.
>Perhaps, and this is just my guess, the 6000 is a hex address.
That's "Parity Check 1; 60000 (s)". I think I found the reason for
that problem (which was on the IBM AT), but now I'm focusing more on
the PC/XT problem.
P.S. -- Just a moment ago, the PC/XT stalled again, but this time a
message from PC DOS appeared at the bottom of the screen after a short
beep:
"Internal stack overflow
System halted"
Could this be what's halting the system... and I finally got a message
explaining the problem from DOS? I quickly investigated the nature of
stack overflow problems, and they exhibit the same symptoms we've been
attributing to "chip creep", etc.. So I've added stacks=12,128 to my
config.sys file (PC DOS 3.3 on the XT) and will report whether or not
that helps with the stability of this system.
Jerry >>>> USR Courier HST--V.32 | IBM PC/XT & PC Color Display <<<<
>>>>> PC DOS 3.3 & WordStar 3.30p | 20 MB HDD & 360K FDD <<<<<
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