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#3DS/AST Lockup Problems

    02-May-95 19:56:22
Fm: M. G. BATCHELOR 71532,1214
To: Jon A. Bell 74124,276
I too have had never-before-seen problems with R4, which coincidentally came about the same time as my Pentium & Stealth 64. Lately, things seem to be more stable, but the only thing I changed was (strangely) running SmartDrive. That is, I *started* running it again. I have not been able to determine if it was R4 or the Pentium, or some combination of both. I do know that on this system, running more than 1 EIDE drive along with SCSI & proprietary CD ROM controllers/adapters, made 3DS go beserk. No other programs were affected, and adding several SCSI drives causes no problems at all. Somehow, I've felt the display drivers were involved with this too, for reasons too numerous to mention here. Also, I've been told that using SIMMS with gold plating (vs tin) causes bizzaro, seemingly random problems in Intel MB's. FWIW, BILL