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Re: Re Keystrokes: Possible BIOS compatibility



FWIW,
The Keystrokes program also caused the PC emulated by Virtual PC version 6.0, for Mac OS X, to have to restart as well.


On Jul 23, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
Looking for a tool to track down a minor annoyance, I discovered the Keystrokes routine in U2. The only problem is that it will only run on one of the six machines on which I have XyWrite permanently installed, As they're all running some version of 9x, it could be the general bugginess of that pathetic excuse for an opsys. But perhaps not, for various complicated reasons. Has anyone running an NT-based Windows (NT, Y2K, XP) on a PC with a fairly recent (post-1996) BIOS run it successfully? Would some kind souls like to test?
On one it runs, on one it locks up, and on all the rest it crashes
with an "Illegal operation: tried to execute an invalid
instruction" (or, in one case, "General Protection exception"). On
a couple of them (haven't tested on all yet), it locks up even
after a reboot to DOS. That is what makes me suspect a BIOS glitch,
along with the fact that the PC where it runs and the one where it
locks up are running the exact same release of Windows: 95C. The
one where it runs is that with the oldest BIOS. I can supply
detailed data of BIOS, memory reports (both with and without
XyWrite loaded) and pif properties if anyone knows how to interpret
all that.
Robert, if you're lurking, this is NOT a request, not even a hint,
for a fix. I know what you think of 9x. And I did get it to run on
one system and saved the resultant file.

Patricia M. Godfrey