#Release 11 c2 (386) hang
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I client of mine recently upgraded from release 10 (DOS 286) to release 11
c2 (DOS 386) and today I was helping him install the upgrade. We have a
problem getting the new software to work on his Epson Equity 386/20 with 2
MB RAM, 20 MB free disk space after the install, MS-DOS 3.3. The system
hangs after the "Successful Login" message. Once it didn't even get that
far – it crashed upon loading with the message "Fatal Error: FMTOUT 1".
Release 10 still works. No hardware or other software changes were made.
We have a Northway 386SX in the same office so we tried loading it there
and it DOES work. Any ideas?
Ray,
FMOUT error indicates a problem with the math co-processor. Be sure
it is firmly seated and the motherboard jumpered or BIOS informed
correctly. However, it is possible you receive the problem because of a
low memory condition. AutoCAD rel 11-386 really needs 4M to be happy – 2M
is probably the bare minimum for the program to even load (not necessarily
operate), and you may have other things stealing some of the 2M anyway.
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates
The coprocessor was firmly seated and the bios did recognize it. I
increase RAM to 4 MB with no luck. I tried a plain vanilla boot-up with no
autoexec.bat and only files=40, buffers=20 in config.sys with no change in
symptoms. I tried DOS 5.0 without anything load high but no luck. I tried
using the older version of the DOS Extender by running through the OLDDX
procedure but no luck. I then tried it on a Espon 386/20 in MY office and
the same problem occurred. The processor chip has A80386DX-20 on it. Is
this the same as the B-step problem chips which have A80386-20 on them?