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Re: Crash: granular page???? HELP NEEDED !

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From: must... John Musterer
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00
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Nicolas <mu...@crypt.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:

>Hello
>
>I have a i486DX4/100 PCI/VESA, 16Mo, Award BIOS 2A4LL4000...
>And it regularly crashes (mainly during one game in fact: C&C, but also in
>others) printing on my screen in very large letters the following message:
>
>"
>CS=260, USE323, page granular, limit FFFFFFFF, base 0, acc CF9B "
>and other lines with either SS=, DS=, ES=, CF93 etc... finishing by
>"
>crash adress (unrelocated)=1:0005C739 "
>
>So what is this due to? This is happening whatever the DOS config.
>Some people, not really sure of what they say, believe it could be due to BIOS
>setup... 
>
>So, is there someone that can help me?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>PS: please e-mail me.
>
>                                 Nicolas
> 
I am having the same problem as you.  I have a P66/16 MB/Diamond Viper
PCI system and I get those same errors when playing C&C.  I have not
had this problem with any other program.  Other programs will lock up
on me, but only C&C crashes with granual errors.

Anyone else have similar experience?

		John
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From: must...@ix.netcom.com (John Musterer)
Subject: Re: Crash: granular page???? HELP NEEDED !
Date: 1995/12/01
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