tlj@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (Jones) (08/24/89)
I have a 386 machine with a fixed hard disk and a 3.5 inch drive. When I type C> dir a: in DOS I get a directory listing of the floppy in A. If I'm in windows and I click on A drive then the machine crashes with a message which goes something like: FATAL: Internal Stack Failure, System Halted and I have to throw the switch (Ctrl+Alt+Del is disabled). This happens whether or not there is a floppy to read. I'm pretty sure it is not the windows software because I tried loaded a copy that works perfectly on my colleagues machine. Anyone have any ideas where I might start looking? Ta much. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Lennard-Jones, British Telecom Research Labs, Suffolk, England. tlj@planet.bt.co.uk "If moths like the light so much, why do they only come out at night?"
schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster) (09/01/89)
In article <546@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk> tlj@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (Jones) writes: >If I'm in windows >and I click on A drive then the machine crashes with a message which goes If it's Windows/386, and you have an Award BIOS, it's probably the BIOS which is crashing your machine. Some Award sets have a "feature" to slow down the system clock when accessing the floppies, for "compatibility" (i.e. to boot Lotus) This sends Windows/386 into orbit. If this is your situation, ask your dealer for an AMI or Phoenix BIOS ... or a later Award set which has had NFS (No Floppy Switching) or NSS (No Speed Switching) patched applied. -- l\ /l' _ Mike Schuster ...!dasys1!schuster l \/ lll/(_ Big Electric Cat schuster@dasys1.UUCP CIS:70346,1745 l lll\(_ New York, NY USA BIX,DELPHI,GEnie:MSCHUSTER