Re: Re Keystrokes: Possible BIOS compatibility

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

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