ggr@dale.acc.Virginia.EDU (Guillermo G. Romero) (08/23/90)
I recently purchased a HP Vectra QS/16S 386SX machine. The machine is now equipped with a 387sx coprocessor, a second hard disk and a WDPlus ethernet card. I have had two problems with the machine since I bought it: 1. The computer locks up whenever it encounters a floating point exception (i.e., a division by 0 or an overflow error). Yup, it simply hangs in there and I have to turn it off in order to recover control. Warm boots will not do it. This has happened using commercial data analysis programs as well as with FORTRAN code written by myself and compiled using MS FORTRAN. The same programs run OK in other machines and behave as expected. The machine was sent back to a local HP rep and the message I get is that there is nothing wrong with it. Any advice? 2. My second problem probably has nothing to do with the machine itself. I am trying to use MKS Toolkit as my standard shell but I seem to have some serious compatibility problems with MS FORTRAN. When invoked from the shell, the compiler works OK but the linker comes up with a misterious "Invalid object module" message. As per page 380 of the MS FORTRAN manual, I should phone Microsoft Product Assistance, which is an almost impossible task. Fortunately, the problem disappears when I run the compiler from DOS but only in the absence of any TSR programs. Any suggestions? Please reply by E-mail. Guillermo Romero ggr@dale.acc.Virginia.EDU ggr@virginia.bitnet