USERGSVE@LNCC.BITNET (George Svetlichny) (05/30/90)
I have been experimenting recently with McAfee's SCANRES and VSHIELD programs and some of them in certain machines give a parity error before ending the RAM scan thereby hangin up the machine. Specifically I have tried SCANRES Version 42 and Version 61 and VSHIELD Version 62B. Version 42 of SCANRES works perfectly but Version 61 and 62B (VSHIELD) present the mentioned problem on two machines. The machines are: (1) an AT clone with 512K on a DTK motherboard, 4.5M of extended memory, and DTK Version 3.11 BIOS, and (2) a Brazilian XT clone with (coincidentaly) 512K memory. The motherboard memory size may not be significant since yet a third XT clone (also Brazilian) with 512K presents no problems. Has anyone else seen this problem? Does anyone have an idea of what is going on? Is this a BIOS problem? George Svetlichny | Department of Mathematics | I've heard that in Belgium they Pontificia Universidade Catolica | sell BIOS beer. Is this true? Rio de Janeiro, Brasil | usergsve@lncc.bitnet |