Here is from my log
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March 18, 2011 Install PSI to C:\Program Files\Secunia\PSI and run
fails to run
Uninstall
March 18, 2011 Uninstall XoftSpy.exe (does nothing without payment)
March 18, 2011 Install javasetup624.exe (v 1.6)
Run Secunia OSI update
Installs
* Apple QT to 7.6.9
* Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.26 (NPAPI).
* Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.26 (ActiveX)
March 19, 2011 Install trial DU Meter
March 19, 2011 WordStar ^OP causes black screen. Possibly "NTVDM has
encountered an illegal instruction)"
Disabling DU Meter in MSCONFIG does not solve the problem.
March 20, 2011 Run sfc /scannow
"to see what was replaced, right click My Computer > manage, expand event
viewer > system"
No replacements found
March 21, 2011 Download 16-bit quick fix from
<http://www.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php?p=20238&t=4&i=1>
winfx16.msi
Fails to solve the problem
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:18:27 -0700, Aryeh Goretsky (home) wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Were any changes made recently to the system? A driver or OS update,
>perhaps?
>
>Regards,
>
>Aryeh Goretsky
>
>At 10:00 AM 3/20/2011, you wrote:
>>Message: 2
>>Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:56:55 +0700
>>From: "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]>
>>Subject: [Thinkpad] T43/WXP some disaster with ntvdm session
>>To: "Thinkpad Users Group" <[email protected]>
>>Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>>Maybe some of you will have ideas about this mystery.
>>
>>My T43 is perking along and about 4 hrs daily I am using
>>WordStar (16-bit DOS ap) which has been working fine for
>>me since 1983 and is rocket fast as it's written in
>>assembly language.
>>
>>Suddenly I can no longer use WordStar's Page Preview function,
>>which switches the screen drive from character mode to
>>graphics mode and gives me the WSYISYG view of the word
>>processing file I am drafting.
>>
>>When I execute WordStar's keyboard command ^OP it instead
>>causes the video drive to my IBM external monitor to disappear,
>>resulting in a black screen ("power saving mode" comes on--you
>>get the idea).
>>
>>I can recover control of the machine only by hitting Alt-Tab to
>>move to another ap in order to get the display back. I have to
>>kill the NTVDM process with the Task Manager and it leaves a mess
>>of $x$ files behind.
>>
>>I ran SFC /scannow which found no errors, and I also replaced
>>the ntvdm files with good versions from the i386 cache without
>>improvement. NSW WinDoctor finds no registry errors.
>>
>>Any ideas what might be wrong? How to diagnose what is wrong?
>>
>>Clue: at one point I received a never-before-seen screen message,
>>I think after some timeout condition:
>>
>> WordStar 7: The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal
>> instruction. CS: 0054 OP:ff ff ff ff a9 Chose Close
>> to terminate this application
>>
>>Googling this brought up the ideas of sfc and replacing the
>>ntvdm files but as noted neither cured the malfunction.
>>
>>Thanks for any help
>>
>>Jeffrey Race
>
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