stack-overflow crashes
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Name: ben
Date: November 27, 2001 at 09:12:28 Pacific
Subject: stack-overflow crashes |
Comment: Hi Out-theres,
My W3.1 freezes solid with a system-halted message because of stack overflow. This began to happen after I changed the original 60mb to a 500mb hd, in control by Seagate Disk Manager to override the BIOS limit in hd capacity.
I tried to fiddle with stack sizing, but the problem doesn't go away.
Can anyone help me out of this?
thanx lots.
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Response Number 1
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Name: JChapoton
Date: November 27, 2001 at 12:22:58 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Dude, I did the same thing last week. But in
my case I had a 191 MD HD and swapped in a
1 GB HD (in a 386) with EZ-BIOS. It did the same thing and then a half an hour after the screen went blank. I turned back on the mach.
and went in the bios and every thing was changed. So I fixed the settings on the bios
and it worked a little bit longer and that was it. The disk manager rewrote the BIOS and the mach. was dead. Don't use the 500 MB.
Use a smaller drive cause if you force it to take the drive that disk manager will rewrite
itself to your bios and your mach. will be no more.!!!!!!!! Be cautious and change it back.
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Response Number 2
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Name: ben
Date: November 27, 2001 at 16:38:29 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Thanks, JC-, for commisserating [is this how you spell?], but I can't go back 'cause my old teeny hd died cold. Wonder, though, if you can't get the Manager to do the stack change.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Z Furman
Date: November 28, 2001 at 09:28:28 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hi ben:
I think you should be able to install up to a 528 mb in normal bios, maybe the problem is in using the Seagate software. If your bios is not the flash type, I think you should be able to reset to default settings. Over the 528 mb is where your bios can't recognize larger drive, I had to use a newer IO control card with a on board bios chip to run a 2.5 gb hard drive on my old 486 PC. Good luck.
Z
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Response Number 4
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Name: Mark p
Date: November 28, 2001 at 13:24:53 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I've had a Fujitsu 4 gig HDD with overlay software running on a 486 with 1993 BIOS no problems. Even had Win9x and Linux installed. And have had similar reasults with Segate HDDs. There was no broblems as long as you waited till AFTER the overly splash screen is shown. Hell even partition magic would alter drive sizes no worries at all. Overlay software is installled on the boot area of the HDD and provides drive translation for the BIOS. It doesn't actually (well shouldn't)change the BIOS settings in the CMOS. A more modern I/ card as Z mentioned is a good idea though.
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