maurik@irene.mit.edu (Maurik Holtrop) (06/07/91)
Anyone know about the POPAD mistery ?
I just recently got 386BUGS.EXE, little program from wuarchive.wust.edu
from the ...\msdos\info where it is called POPADBUG.ZIP. It was written
by John Lauro. (If you want it I can mail it to you also.)
The program claims that there is a bug in the 386 after calling the
popad instruction. I ran the program and indeed, on my 386/25 which
is 1 1/2 years old, it FAILED THE TEST ! On a friends 386SX it did
not fail, and on the 386/20 at work it did.
Does anyone know what is going on ? Has INTEL been selling faultive
386 chips ? Should I try and get them to replace my 386 chip ?
Could this be the cause of the misterious crashes of windows in
386 enhanced mode ?
(Am I getting paranoid ?)
Maurik
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