BillO
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HI All,
Season's greetings!
I have a an 2nd gen IBM 5150 (came with 256K RAM). In it is the standard floppy controller, a Trident VGA card, a MicroRAM card (for 640K) and a XT-CF Lite V4.1.
It boots DOS 5 fine. I will run GWBASIC just fine. It will load EDIT, DOSSHELL and TurboBASIC but if I try to do anything with them (like load a program in TB, or create a directory with DOSSHELL) the system gets unstable and can lock-up or reset or a variety of other less than pleasant behavior. Sometimes when it locks-up it will respond to Ctrl-Alt-Del and sometimes it won't.
I have run CheckIT on it and done all the tests which it passes. Usually. One time I let the memory test run overnight and by mooring the machine was locked up but no error was reported.
I don't recall anything like this with DOS 3.3, but then I didn't have EDIT, DOSSHELL or even TB.
Any ideas?
Season's greetings!
I have a an 2nd gen IBM 5150 (came with 256K RAM). In it is the standard floppy controller, a Trident VGA card, a MicroRAM card (for 640K) and a XT-CF Lite V4.1.
It boots DOS 5 fine. I will run GWBASIC just fine. It will load EDIT, DOSSHELL and TurboBASIC but if I try to do anything with them (like load a program in TB, or create a directory with DOSSHELL) the system gets unstable and can lock-up or reset or a variety of other less than pleasant behavior. Sometimes when it locks-up it will respond to Ctrl-Alt-Del and sometimes it won't.
I have run CheckIT on it and done all the tests which it passes. Usually. One time I let the memory test run overnight and by mooring the machine was locked up but no error was reported.
I don't recall anything like this with DOS 3.3, but then I didn't have EDIT, DOSSHELL or even TB.
Any ideas?