reilly@boehm.dec.com (06/13/86)
I recently bought a PC/XT clone made by Bondwell. It is configured with - 640kb memory (256kb on the mother board and 384kb add on) a 1/2 height 360kb floppy drive 20 mb winni CGA with color monitor serial port, parallel port battery backed up clock It runs all of the programs I have tried except the PD program PCWINDOW and a similar package called POPCORN included by the dealer with the machine. When I run either of these programs they steal the keyboard interrupt and then terminate and remain resident. I hit the "hot key" and the program responds with the display I asked for (ascii table, calandar, clock, etc). When I exit back to DOS the machine is sometimes hung or responds by dumping garbage to the screen when I try to enter a DOS command. When the machine is hung even CNTL/ALT/DEL doesn't work. The machine always hangs after I exit the clock window. Other windows sometimes work and sometimes cause the hang or dump. Can anyone help with this problem? BTW the machine is a Bondwell model 34 and I am running DOS V2.11. I have checked/compared the DOS low core locations and INT vectors to the IBM Technical Manual and they match the IBM PC-2/XT values (even the addresses in the INT vectors). Thganks in advance, Mike Reilly UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-boehm!reilly or ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-r!reilly