Rebooting strangeness
Philip R. Burns
"Ed DeWan" <e-d...@uiuc.edu> writes:
> In message Wed, 31 Aug 1994 09:47:14 -0400,
> jw...@cornell.edu (James W. Howell) writes:
>
>
>> establish connection" and then the machine reboots by itself, and then
>>
>
> You mean it's not poltergeists? My machine reboots itself frequently, for
> no apparent reason. As far as I can tell, NUPop (2.1) is running, and
> maybe NCSA Mosaic, but not necessarily. I'm running Norton Desktop over
> NDOS, and FTP's TCP/IP, and I'm on a Novell network, but I always leave
> it logged out, so this doesn't seem to be a factor. Would surely like to
> know why this happens - it's always when the machine is "idle".
>
The normal reason for this is that you have not excluded high memory used
by various driver or hardware cards correctly. The usual culprit is the
memory used by the network card itself. You MUST exclude this from high
memory.
-- Phil "Pib" Burns
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL. USA
p...@nwu.edu