CompuServe Messages

Kevin, As I said, in my first message, give up trying to figure it out, Something was wrong: Bus clocking; a bad slot; a badly setted SIMM where the flakey memory hit just right (or wrong!); Screwy SETUP parms where you got 1000 wait states on memory.. If you want to put the system back together, a good technician can probably find the problem and cause for $50 to $75 an hour (I'm guessing at rates). As far as the disc error problem, I assume you have contacted the vendor, and verified that the version you had wasn't defective and/or had the disc replaced. The next thing you might want to do is see if a friends or a cooperative retail dealers system can read the disc. If it can't that tells us a lot. Something you may want to try, is to build a floppy disk boot disk. In it, have everything related to CD-ROM load normally,i.e. NOT HIGH, and NO EXTENDED MEM MANAGERS!. trash anything not CD-ROM related. Also, if you have it, kill the /E switch on MSCDEX to disable EMS cache, also kick up the /M value to 25 or so. See what happens. Glen C.